Climbing Plants of Panboola

Wombat Berry

Eustrephus is a monotypic genus in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae. The sole species Eustrephus latifolius (Wombat Berry) is an evergreen vine native to Malesia, the Pacific Islands and eastern Australia. It occurs in sclerophyll forest, woodland, heath, gallery forest and on margins of rainforest.

Climbing Lily

Geitonoplesium is a genus of a sole species Geitonoplesium cymosum, the scrambling lily, constituting part of a lily plant family Hemerocallidaceae. They grow naturally as scrambling vines in rainforests, drier forests and woodlands, of eastern Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, Fiji, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island.

Austral Sarsaparilla

Smilax australis (Lawyer Vine, Barbwire Vine, or "wait-a-while") is a vine in the family Smilacaceae, endemic to Australia. It has prickly climbing stems that are up to 8 metres long with coiled tendrils that are up to 20 cm long. The glossy leaves have 5 prominent longitudinal veins and are 5 to 15 cm long and 3 to 10 cm wide.

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