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Glycine

Glycine sp.

Photo by Leuba Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

A climber with purplish blue pea flowers and white centres. The leaves are trifoliate and linear in shape.

Habitat:

dry sclerophyll forest

Notes:

Found this delicate vine with striking blue flowers climbing on to larger plants. Difficult to separate vine from other plants. No pods yet. <br>

My thanks to Nikki5 and Vinny for help with the ID. <br>

Family: Fabaceae

Species ID Suggestions

Native wisteria

hardenbergia comptoniana. ???

false sarsaparilla, purple coral pea, happy wanderer, native lilac and waraburra

Hardenbergia violacea

Twining Glycine

Glycine clandestina

Comments (4)

Glycine looks a good fit, G.clandestina has one sets of appendages between the leaflets (stipels), the very similar G. microphylla only has two pair. Tough to pick from a photo
Looks like hardenbergia comptoniana from what I can see sp maybe different but def hardenbergia
Thanks alicelongmartin. They were everywhere, making the whole place look so pretty..

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