Flowers and leaves. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Fruit and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Fruit and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Vine. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Stem of old vine. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Native Pear, Doubah, Austral Doubah, Cogola Bush

Family

Apocynaceae

Notes

Climbing shrub to 4m tall.  Leaves slightly fleshy, opposite each other or in clusters, mostly 3-12cm long, 2-15mm wide, linear to flat, hairy when young.  Flowers green, or cream to yellow, tubular, with five lobes, in 6-19 flowered umbels on the end of a stem arising from the bases of the leaves.  Family Asclepiadaceae in SA.  Vulnerable Vic.

Description and photo (as Leichhardtia australis) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 554

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Marsdenia~australis