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Help to ID this one please

Posted by scubamid NQ Australia (My Page) on
Sun, Jul 10, 05 at 5:22

Hi all,
Am new to this list but would love to find out what this plant is. As you can see it is a vine that virtually covers trees. I live along the Barron River in Far Nth Qld, and mostly I have just seen it along the river but that could be because of the farms all along etc.
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Thanks
Judy


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RE: Help to ID this one please

looks like an Ipomea species? Quite possibly a weed plant.


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RE: Help to ID this one please

Judy, this is an excerpt from a friend of mine who has provided you with an answer!
Cheers from Kris

"Turbina corymbosa (Convolvulaceae) and yes it is a weed.
Recently photographed it again near the Curtain Fig in full bloom, and its also on the banks of the Barron at Kamerunga.
Quite spectacular in flower and as a mature liane it also develops incredibly ropy contorted stems, would be worth growing somewhere with zero potential for it to naturalize, eg middle of Saudi desert, a glasshouse in the Yukon, in the middle of a concrete
jungle with stormwater draining directly to the sea etc.
I also recently photographed at Nong Nooch BG another sp in the genus from New Caledonia with brilliant crimson flowers which seems to be a much tamer Turbina."


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RE: Help to ID this one please

Thanks for the answers. Might have to 'treat' it a little.
Cheers
Judy


 
 

 

 


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