Scrambling pohuehue
Muehlenbeckia complexa (A.Cunn.) Meisn.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.2 m
- wide
- 2.0 m
Polygonaceae
Also called Maidenhair vine, Wireplant, Mattress wire vine, Australian ivy
Formerly Calacinum complexum, Fallopia complexa, Muehlenbeckia austracompla, Muehlenbeckia debilis, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Lord Howe I. to New ZealandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- Māori
- Pohuehue
- root
- Scrub pohuehue
- Chinese
- 千葉吊蘭, 鐵線蘭, 千叶兰
- Chinese (China)
- 千叶兰, 铁线兰
- Russian
- Мюленбекия спутанная
- Danish
- pletter i luften
- French
- Muhlenbeckie
- Finnish
- kietolankaköynnös
- Slovak
- záclonovka spletená
- Turkish
- Tel Sarmaşığı
- Welsh
- llwyn gwifrau
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Muehlenbeckia complexa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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