Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Parsonsia eucalyptophylla
Common name
Gargaloo
Family
Apocynaceae
Where found
Woodland, shrubland, climbing on fences and stumps, and in rocky areas. Western Slopes. Bungonia State Conservation Area.
Notes
Woody climber to 4 m tall or more, sometimes scrambling over the ground as a low shrub. Young plants climbing by clinging roots, older plants with twining stems. Stems hairless or hairy with minute hairs. Adult leaves opposite each other, 8-30 cm long, 5-30 mm wide, 7–18 times as long as wide, dull, upper surface usually hairless, lower surface paler and hairy with minute hairs, gradually narrowing at the tips and bases. Juvenile leaves 2–5 cm long, cordate at the base. Flowers fragrant, cream to yellow, tubular, the tube 1–1.5 mm long, with 5 lobes each 7–9 mm long, strongly rolled back. Flowers in many-flowered branched clusters. Flowering: spring–autumn.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Parsonsia~eucalyptophylla (accessed 30 January, 2021)
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