Scientific Name: Calamus muelleri

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  • Pronunciation:
    CAL-ah-moos MOOL-er-eye
  • Common Name:
    Lawyer Vine, Wait-a-while
  • Type:
    Vine
  • Family:
    ARACACEAE
  • Status:
    Common
  • Flowers:
    straw coloured to 2 mm
  • Fruit:
    Orange brown scaly
  • Flowers Color:
    White
  • Fruit Color:
    Orange
  • Vegetation Type:
    Sub-tropical rainforest
  • Species List:
    Kennilworth Fig Tree Walk, Craft, Bush food, Bush medicine, Heritage Park, NNP Palm Grove, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, Cooloothin Corner, Kin Kin Scrub, Dandaloo, Stratford Park, Upper Yandina Creek,
Cultural Notes

Older canes used for many weaving, tying and construction purposes.||Barbs used as fish hooks.||Bush Food: scant edible fruits.||Bush medicine: Young shoots chewed and swallowed for dysentery.||

Identification Notes

Leafless stem, flagellum, has backward-facing hooks for climbing. Many chestnut spines on growing tip. Leaves compound with with upright prickles on midrib, leaf edge and stalk.