Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Marsdenia rostrata
Common name
Milk vine, Common milk vine
Family
Apocynaceae
Where found
Forest and wet gullies. Coast, ranges, tablelands and Kosciuszko National Park
Notes
Woody climber to about 10 m high. Stems with large and conspicuous lenticels, hairy with colourless hairs when young, becoming hairless with age. Leaves opposite each other, 3.5–15 cm long, 20–80 mm wide, thin, glossy, margins flat to slightly curved down, upper surface usually dark green, hairless, lower surface pale green with distinct venation, hairless; glands several at the base of the midvein, finger-like, tips abruptly narrowed. Flowers 7–12 mm in diameter, cream to yellow or pinky red, tubular, with 5 lobes, in several- to many-flowered umbels. Flowers Spring to Summer.
Family was Asclepiadaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Marsdenia~rostrata (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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