Podranea ricasoliana
Common name
Port St John creeper
Family
Bignoniaceae
Flora category
Vascular – Exotic
Structural class
Lianes & Related Trailing Plants - Dicotyledons
Conservation status
Not applicable
Habitat
Terrestrial.
Detailed description
Vigorous evergreen, hairless vine. Leaflets 2-7 cm long, long-oval and serrated, larger (5-9 cm long) on strong vegetative shoots. Flowers trumpet shaped to 8 cm, pink with rose red veins especially inside tube.
Similar taxa
Related to wonga wonga vine (Pandorea pandorana) from which it can be identified by the inflated calyx (green bracts at the base of the flower tube) with its much larger teeth (4-7 mm). (DOC, 1998).
Flowering
December, March, April, May
Flower colours
Red/Pink
Year naturalised
1981
Origin
South Africa
Reason For Introduction
Ornamental
Life Cycle Comments
Perennial.
Reproduction
Vegetative spread through layering. Seed capsules are occasionally formed and this some evidence that seed is viable.
Seed
Rarely seen but appears to be viable
Dispersal
Vegetative spread, usually from carelessly discarded garden waste