Botanical name Pandorea jasminoides
A common name Bower of Beauty
Seedling
From little seedlings big vines grow......we don't have acorns :-)
Pandorea jasminoides have delicate looking little leaves, probably really pinnae I guess. They pop up quite readily in damp times. I count 4, maybe 5 in this photo, along with 3 Syzygium australe.
Young plant
Not yet
Juvenile
These are actually the leaves of a reasonable sized vine growing nearer the ground, Pandorea jasminoides does a good job of overtaking most things in the vicinity.
I have been known to take to the Bower of Beauty with loppers and prune rather vigorously, but only twice. Maclura conchinensis, another vine, has also been another target on a couple of occaisions.
Reasonably mature
Sassafras
You might think Bower of Beauty is a bit over the top for a Common Name. When you see a tree filled with Pandorea jasminoides in full bloom and the breeze is heading your way you might not think so. They do get rather large, this is a modest specimen using Eucalyptus saligna as a trellis.
The same tree, most of what you see as greenery on the Eucalpytus is actually Pandorea jasminoides, most of the trees' branches begin higher up, and the vine does a good job of filling them too.
Pandorea jasminoides is quite a rampant vine, though not as vigorous as some.
This time it's a Eucalyptus microcorys that is the trellis for the Pandorea jasminoides. It is a little hard to convey the actual amount of vine in this Eucalypt, suffice to say it is a lot. Bear in mind though that Pandorea is not the most vigorous of the many tree climbing vines, not by a long way. There is an excellent specimen of Maclura cochinensis in Wingham Brush that has a trunk worthy of quite a large tree. It grows up one of the larger Ficus macrophylla. Maybe I will a photo of it to demonstrate what they can do, and also what the spurs are like too, to give it the common name of Cocks Spur Vine.
The same tree, just a wider shot, all the vines are Pandorea jasminoides.