scottwgavins's Identifications

This vine grew up at the base of a bluegum tree (after a larger vine that previously grew in the same location had been disposed of by Brisbane City Council's ever-busy Tidy Uppers (the previous vine, in this location, was a nest site of red-backed fairywrens). It is now dying, having been noticed and attacked by said Tidy-Uppers, who do not seem to think that a native vine that flowers profusely for long periods supporting multiple and numerous insect species (and therefore, insect-eating birds) and is particularly attractive to the smaller honeyeaters such as white-throated honeyeaters (which I repeatedly photographed on the first vine that once grew here) should be permitted to survive.

I give this plant (self-sown) less than a month before Brisbane City Council pounces on it with gallons of herbicide and kills it stone dead. They're quite happy for their el cheapo mowing contractors to steadily reduce 90 percent of the 'park' lawns all around to a dismal monoculture of invasive dyschoriste depressa; but cannot abide to permit a local native habitat plant and butterfly host plant to live.