Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Geitonoplesium cymosum
Common name
Scrambling lily
Family
Hemerocallidaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and near streams. Mainly coast and ranges.
Notes
Vine to 10 m high. Shortly rhizomatous. Fruit fleshy. Stems wiry, hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–13 cm long, 2–35 mm wide, tips pointed, both surfaces glossy, midrib prominent and raised on the upper surface, blades twisted at the base into distinct leaf stalks. Flowers mauve or pale pink to white, often white on the inner surface, mauve to reddish on the outer surface, with 6 'petals', each 5–12 mm long, not fringed. Flowers in branched clusters 4-10 cm long. Flowering: spring–summer. Fruit black, more or less globular, 7–20 mm in diameter.
Family Luzuriagaceae in PlantNET. Family Asphodelaceae in VICFLORA.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Geitonoplesium~cymosum (accessed 20 April 2021)
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