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infestation (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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climbing habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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habit in flower (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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thick woody older stem (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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ribbed younger stem (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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leaves usually have two leaflets and a three-branched tendril (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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hairy young growth with tendrils developing at the ends of the leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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lower leaves sometimes have three leaflets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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leaves occasionally lack tendrils and have only two leaflets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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close-up of leaflet (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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tubular flowers with whitish outsides (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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close-up of flower showing five petal lobes and yellow throat (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
Scientific Name
Pithecoctenium crucigerum (L.) A. H. Gentry
Synonyms
Bignonia crucigera L.
Family
Bignoniaceae
Common Names
Brazilian white bellflower, monkey comb, monkey-comb, monkeycomb, monkey's comb, monkey's hairbrush, monkey's-comb
Origin
Native to southern Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and tropical South America.
Naturalised Distribution
Locally naturalised in south-eastern Queensland.
Notes
Monkey's comb (Pithecoctenium crucigerum) is regarded as a minor environmental weed in south-eastern Queensland.