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CLIMBING LIGNUM FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Climbing Lignum
Other Names
Native Sarsaparilla
Description
Climbing Lignum is a prostrate low shrub, 0.4-2 m high, often found scrambling or twining over rocks, fallen timber or other plants. It has slender, reddish-brown stems to 1 m long. Leaves are oblong, ovate or semi-circular, 1.5-6 cm long and hairless, on stalks 3-20 cm long.
Flowers are greenish or yellowish, small and somewhat inconspicuous with females and males on different plants. Flower-heads are 1-9 cm long, leafy and spread along the branches. Fruit is a brown to black, ellipsoid to obovoid nut with three longitudinal ribs and furrows, 2.7-3.0 mm long. The plant is also known as Muehlenbeckia adpressa. (The accepted name is now Duma adpressa)
Habitat
Scattered along the coastline behind beaches and on cliff-tops.
Distribution
Climbing Lignum is native to coastal southern Australia around coastal southern New South Wales, Victoria., South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania.,
Growth Characteristics
Height (m): 3 - 4
Spread (m): 3 - 4
Soil Texture: sand, loam
Soil pH: acid soils, neutral soils, alkaliine soils
Frost Sensitivity: moderately sensitive
Minimum Rainfall (mm): 500
Flower Colour: green
Flower Season: spring
(source: SA State Flora Catalog)
Propagation
seed, cuttings,
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Caryophyllales | | Family: | Polygonaceae | | Genus: | Duma | | Species: | adpressa | | Common Name: | Climbing Lignum |
Relatives in same Genus
Duma florulenta
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