This is the product of Friday's power cut - went gardening and pulled out a number of these beautiful plants. They are quite charming - the twisty green tendrils winding up trees and through shrubs and up the bamboo candle holder. The fleshy magenta-tipped white blossoms, which turn into delicately spiked green lanterns, which burst, releasing gazillions of pretty fairy-light puffballs, which float and dance delightfully into the breeze... and take over and strangle your garden, and your suburb, and your bushveld and your COUNTRY... how evil is that!?I have been trying to find out what it's called - common or any other name, and where it originates from and had no luck. (But we had a visitor here once who said we could get arrested for harbouring this intruder!)
Does anyone know? Botanical sister? It has milky sticky sap and the leaves are oval with a little point at the ends.
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Just read an article in our local suburban paper... It's called the 'moth catcher' - Araujia sericifera - from South America, asking everyone who sees them to "kill, kill, kill"!
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