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Pandorea pandorana

Hayward Scenic Reserve, Lower Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 18/12/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Young vine. Auckland. Feb 2007.<br>Photographer: Peter J de Lange, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Pandorea pandorana close up of flowers, Western Springs (Jaggers Bush), Auckland.<br>Photographer: Peter J de Lange, Date taken: 17/09/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Pandorea pandorana in flower, Western Springs (Jaggers Bush), Auckland.<br>Photographer: Peter J de Lange, Date taken: 17/09/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Pandorea pandorana showing foliage and flowers, Western Springs (Jaggers Bush), Auckland.<br>Photographer: Peter J de Lange, Date taken: 17/09/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Pandorea pandorana wild vine growing up Cryptomeria trees, Western Springs (Jaggers Bush), Auckland.<br>Photographer: Peter J de Lange, Date taken: 17/09/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Seedling. Hayward Scenic Reserve, Lower Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 18/12/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

wonga wonga vine

Biostatus

Exotic

Conservation status

Not applicable

Structural class

Lianes & Related Trailing Plants - Dicotyledons

Flower colours

Cream, White

Detailed description

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.

Habitat

Terrestrial.

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Pandorea

Family

Bignoniaceae

Authority

Pandorea pandorana (Andrews) Steenis

Endemic family

Ecology

Flowering

August, September, October, November

Year naturalised

1981

Origin

N Guinea, E Australia

Reason for introduction

Ornamental

Life cycle and dispersal

Perennial.

Other information

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

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