Scientific Name: Caesalpinia scortechinii

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  • Pronunciation:
    see-sal-PIN-ee-ah score-tek-HEEN-ee-ii
  • Common Name:
    Large Prickle-Vine, Wait-a-while
  • Derivation:
    Caesalpinia: honours Andrea Cesalpini 1519-1603 - philosopher,botanist, physician, professor of medicine and superintendent of botanic garden at Pisa. scortechinii: honours Rev. Father Benedetto Scortechini 1845-1886, Italian botanist who visited Australia. (connections with Southport and Beaudesert districts)
  • Type:
    Vine Shrub Climber , woody
  • Family:
    CAESALPINIACEAE
  • Flowers:
    Yellow
  • Fruit:
    Flattened woody to 5 cm
  • Vegetation Type:
    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 shrub. Deterrent.||