Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Caryophyllales > Polygonaceae > Muehlenbeckia > Muehlenbeckia complexaMuehlenbeckia complexa (maidenhair vine)Synonyms: Calacinum complexum (homotypic); Muehlenbeckia austracompla; Muehlenbeckia complexa microphylla; Muehlenbeckia complexa trilobata; Muehlenbeckia complexa var. grandifolia; Muehlenbeckia complexa var. microphylla; Muehlenbeckia complexa var. trilobata; Muehlenbeckia debilis; Muehlenbeckia ephedroides muricatula; Muehlenbeckia microphylla; Muehlenbeckia muricatula; Muehlenbeckia paucifolia; Muehlenbeckia triloba; Muehlenbeckia trilobata; Muehlenbeckia truncata; Muehlenbeckia varians; Polygonum camptianum (homotypic); Polygonum complexum (homotypic); Polygonum comptonianum (homotypic); Polygonum cordatum; Polygonum heterophyllum (heterotypic); Polygonum rotundifolium; Polygonum varians; Sarcogonum complexum (homotypic) Muehlenbeckia complexa, commonly known as maidenhair vine, creeping wire vine, lacy wire vine, angel vine, mattress vine, mattress wire weed, necklace vine, and wire vine, is an ornamental plant in the Polygonaceae family, which is native to New Zealand. It is quite vigorous and probably the best species for trimming and topiary. It is semi-deciduous, growing to 15 ft (4.5 m) or more up suitable supports, and produces swollen white berries with black seeds. This species can become quite weedy in suitable climates if not restrained. It is naturalised in Western Australia. |
| Allergen Potential [1] | Medium-High |  | | Edible [2] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [2] | Dioecious | | Leaf Type [2] | Deciduous | | Lifespan [3] | Perennial | | Structure [2] | Vine | | Usage [2] | Very salt and wind hardy, it is an excellent plant for clothing wire netting fences in very exposed positions, making a good windbreak hedge; It responds well to trimming and can be grown as a free-standing shrub or hedge;
The plant makes an excellent ground cover when it is grown in a sunny position; | | | Height [2] | 16.4 feet (5 m) | | Width [2] | 39 inches (1 m) |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 4New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ database♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 7FORAGING ECOLOGY OF THE RED-CROWNED PARAKEET
(CYANORAMPHUS NOVAEZELANDIAE NOVAEZELANDIAE) AND
YELLOW-CROWNED PARAKEET (C. AURICEPS AURICEPS) ON
LITTLE BARRIER ISLAND, HAURAKI GULF, NEW ZEALAND, Terry C. Greene, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1998) 22(2): 161-171 ♦ 8HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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