Marsdenia rostrata Robert Brown, 1810
Common Milk Vine
APOCYNACEAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Ken Harris

(updated 11 August 2007)


Bribie Island, Queensland, 7 January 1992

This plant is a twining vine, with ellipical leaves which are about 10 cms long..


'Den of Nargun Reserve' on the MacAlister River, Victoria, 11 December992

The plant has clusters of cream coloured flowers which are about 1 cm across.


'Den of Nargun Reserve' on the MacAlister River, Victoria, 11 December 1992

The foliage is food for some caterpillars, for example :

Fodina ostorius,
CATOCALINAE, NOCTUIDAE.

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