Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pandorea jasminoides

Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flower and young seed case. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Bower vine, Bower of beauty

Family

Bignoniaceae

Where found

Garden escape. Coastal, mainly in the Sydney area.

Naturally grows in rainforest north from west of Port Macquarie.

Notes

Introduced tall woody climber. Older stems longitudinally grooved. Stems hairless. Leaves mostly opposite each other, sometimes in whorls of 3, 12–20 cm long, compound, with  5–9, rarely 3, leaflets, each 4.5–8 cm long, 15–40 mm wide, tips pointed, margins entire, surfaces hairless. Flowers white or pink with red markings in the throat, 40–60 mm long, tubular, the tube 40-60 mm long, 10–20 mm in diameter, with 5 spreading lobes each 20–30 mm long. Flower clusters 6–12 cm long. Flowering: September–March. Seeds with a membranous wing.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pandorea~jasminoides (accessed 10 April 2021)