Scientific Name: Mezoneuron scortechinii

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  • Pronunciation:
    mez-oh-NEW-ron score-tek-HEEN-ee-ii
  • Common Name:
    Large Prickle-Vine, Wait-a-while
  • Derivation:
    was Caesalpinia scortechinii
  • Type:
    Vine
  • Family:
    FABACEAE
  • Status:
    Common
  • Flowers:
    Yellow
  • Fruit:
    Flattened woody to 5 cm
  • Flowers Color:
    Yellow
  • Fruit Color:
    Brown
  • Vegetation Type:
    Rainforest, Wet Eucalypt Forest
  • Species List:
    FI Podberscek, Cooloothin, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Noosa High School, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, BSDoonan, Fraser Island, Batianoff 87, Kin Kin Scrub, Dandaloo, Upper Yandina Creek,
Cultural Notes

Seeds used ornamentally.||

Identification Notes

Large prickles on stem. ||Leaves: alternate, compound, bipinnate, 4 to 8 opposite pairs each with 5 to 10 leaflets, entire. Petiole, branchlets and midrib hairy.||Pods: winged.||

Landscaping Notes

Part shade. Prickly dense climbing vine. Deterrent.||