Scientific Name: Callerya megasperma (was Millettia megasperma)

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  • Pronunciation:
    call-ERR-ee-ah meg-ah-SPERM-ah
  • Common Name:
    Native Wisteria
  • Derivation:
    Callerya: ||megasperma: large seed
  • Type:
    Vine tall woody climber to the tops of trees Climber ,
  • Family:
    FABACEAE
  • Flowers:
    Purple, lilac, spring
  • Fruit:
    Pods, long woody velvety with large brown seeds
  • Vegetation Type:
    Sub-tropical rainforest, Wet Eucalypt Forest
  • Species List:
    Leslie Drive Roundabout, FI Podberscek, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, NNP service road, Wooroi Palm Grove, BSDoonan, Old Tewantin, Tewantin Forest Gyndier, Fraser Island, Mill Point, Batianoff 87, NNS, Boreen Point, NNP Tanglewood, NNP Palm Grove, Kin Kin Scrub, Dandaloo, BHNR, Upper Yandina Creek, Heritage Park,
Identification Notes

Vigorous vine with attractive mauve flowers. Coils. Compound leaves of 7 to 13 leaflets.Trunk has bronze silky papery flakey bark.||

Associated Fauna

Butterfly host plant: Pencilled blue, Large banded awl.

Landscaping Notes

Suitable plant for appropriate soil conditions (see Vegetation type) - ||Very large and vigorous creeper. Forms canopy over surrounding vegetation. Beautiful but needs controling. Can be trained over low fence - beautiful flowers. Moist well-drained soil in sun or part shade.||Propagation from seed ripening March-May. ||Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery.|Successfully propagated by Florabunda Bushcare nursery Woombye|Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery||Successfully propagated by Barung Landcare||