Small-leaved pohuehue - Muehlenbeckia complexa
Also known as scrub pohuehue or wire vine.
Photographed at Kaitoreti Spit, Canterbury.
Note the endemic prostrate broom creeping out from under the muehlenbeckia. This is a rare native broom endemic to the Kaitoreti Spit.
Often confused as a shrub because of its habit on piling up high on itself, or another plant, to form a dense tangled shrub-like mass that be a metre or so high.
A common creeping tangled vine of the New Zealand coast. Great lizard habitat and lizards play a role in spreading the seed.
Small-leaved pohuehue - Muehlenbeckia complexa
Also known as scrub pohuehue or wire vine.
Photographed at Kaitoreti Spit, Canterbury.
Note the endemic prostrate broom creeping out from under the muehlenbeckia. This is a rare native broom endemic to the Kaitoreti Spit.
Often confused as a shrub because of its habit on piling up high on itself, or another plant, to form a dense tangled shrub-like mass that be a metre or so high.
A common creeping tangled vine of the New Zealand coast. Great lizard habitat and lizards play a role in spreading the seed.