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infestation (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

climbing habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit in flower (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

thick woody older stem (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

ribbed younger stem (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

leaves usually have two leaflets and a three-branched tendril (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

hairy young growth with tendrils developing at the ends of the leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

lower leaves sometimes have three leaflets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

leaves occasionally lack tendrils and have only two leaflets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of leaflet (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

tubular flowers with whitish outsides (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of flower showing five petal lobes and yellow throat (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

Pithecoctenium crucigerum

Scientific Name

Pithecoctenium crucigerum (L.) A. H. Gentry

Synonyms

Bignonia crucigera L.

Bignoniaceae

Brazilian white bellflower, monkey comb, monkey-comb, monkeycomb, monkey's comb, monkey's hairbrush, monkey's-comb

Native to southern Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and tropical South America.

Locally naturalised in south-eastern Queensland.

Monkey's comb (Pithecoctenium crucigerum) is regarded as a minor environmental weed in south-eastern Queensland.

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