Species

Pandorea pandorana

Common Name(s)

wonga wonga vine

Authority

Pandorea pandorana (Andrews) Steenis

Family

Bignoniaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Exotic

Structural Class

Dicotyledonous Lianes and Related Trailing Plants

Habitat

Terrestrial.

Features

Vigorous climber. Stems becoming woody. Leaves with 5-7 (occ 3 or 9) hairless leaflets; each 15-60 x 7-40 mm, narrow-oval, glossy. Flowers tubular, fragrant, 17-23 mm long, white or cream outside, cream or flecked with crimson or deep red inside; numerous in terminal panicles. Seed capsule to 9 x 2 cm, beaked, seldom seen.

Similar Taxa

Very similar foliage to P. jasminoides, but can easily be separated when flowering, P. pandorana has numerous small flowers in large clusters, P. jasminoides has flowers to 60 mm long in panicles of 5-15.

Flowering

August, September, October, November

Flower Colours

Cream,White

Year Naturalised

1981

Origin

N Guinea, E Australia

Reason For Introduction
Ornamental

Life Cycle Comments
Perennial.

This page last updated on 29 Mar 2010