Delairea odorata
Cape Ivy DESCRIPTION
Glabrous climbing and twining perennial with slender stems to 3m long. Fleshy leaves broadly ovate to circular in outline but palmately lobed and veined (3-7), 4-8cm long by same wide; petioles 4-7cm long, reniform stipules 5-10mm wide.
FLOWERS AND FRUIT
Mainly axillary corymbose inflorescences with 15-50 bright yellow cylindrical flower heads 2-2.5mm wide on stalks 2-5mm long during winter, 8-10 bracts 3-5mm long with 2-4 smaller bracteoles at base, 10- 12 tubular florets about 5mm longer than involucre. Reddish-brown achenes 2mm long, white pappus 5-6mm long.
HABITAT AND RANGE
A weed of moist gullies, from southern Tasmania to the Queensland-New South Wales border and South Australia. A native of South Africa.
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