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Small-leaved pohuehue - Muehlenbeckia complexa

Also known as scrub pohuehue or wire vine.

This plant is in flower. The tiny white blooms produce succulent fruit which are a lizard favourite and thus lizards help spread the seed. The tangled mass is also great lizard habitat.

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.

 

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Uploaded on February 17, 2013
Taken on February 17, 2013