Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Parsonsia brownii
Common name
Mountain silkpod, Twining silkpod
Family
Apocynaceae
Where found
Rainforest and tall wet eucalypt forests. Coast and ranges. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Tall woody climber. Always twines and never has climbing roots. Young stems hairy, often purplish, becoming hairless. Leaves opposite each other. Adult leaves 3–20 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, thick, firm to leathery, more or less hairless, lustrous; upper surface dark green, lower surface pale yellowish green to fawn, margins flat, tips pointed. Juvenile leaves 6–10 cm long, 4–7 mm wide. Flowers fragrant, white to yellowish or pink, tubular, the tube about 2 mm long, with 5 lobes 2–4 mm long, in loose many-flowered clusters. Flowers mainly late spring and summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Parsonsia~brownii (accessed 25 January, 2021)
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