Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Flagellaria indica
Common name
Whip Vine, Bush Cane, Supplejack
Family
Flagellariaceae
Where found
Rainforest, frequently along streams or in gullies. Often forming dense thickets. Coastal north of Wollongong.
Notes
Perennial climber with stems usually to about 15 m high. Fruit fleshy. Stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 9–40 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, hairless, tips tapering into a coiled tendril, base constricted and then expanded and sheathing the stem. Flowers fragrant, white, with 6 'petals' each about 2 mm long. Flowers in many-flowered branched clusters 10–25 cm long. Fruit at first greenish or greenish red, turning white or pinkish, almost globular, about 5 mm in diameter.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Flagellaria~indica (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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