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Glycine sp.
A climber with purplish blue pea flowers and white centres. The leaves are trifoliate and linear in shape.
dry sclerophyll forest
Found this delicate vine with striking blue flowers climbing on to larger plants. Difficult to separate vine from other plants. No pods yet.
My thanks to Nikki5 and Vinny for help with the ID.
Family: Fabaceae
Glycine looks a good fit, G.clandestina has one sets of appendages between the leaflets (stipels), the very similar G. microphylla only has two pair. Tough to pick from a photo
Looks like hardenbergia comptoniana from what I can see sp maybe different but def hardenbergia
Thanks alicelongmartin. They were everywhere, making the whole place look so pretty..
Spotted on Dec 14, 2011
Submitted on Dec 15, 2011
