Flowers and leaves. Photo: Glen Leiper, Crows Nest, Qld

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Glen Leiper, Crows Nest, Qld

Flowers, pods, and leaves. Photo: Glen Leiper, Crows Nest, Qld

Plant. Unknown photographer, Queensland Herbarium image collection

Common Name

Gargaloo

Family

Apocynaceae

Notes

Tall woody climber to 4m tall or more, sometimes scrambling over the ground as a low shrub.   Leaves opposite each other, 8-30cm long, 5-20mm wide, flat, upper surface hairless, lower surface minutely hairy.  Flowers fragrant, yellow, with a very short tube and 5 lobes, in many-flowered open panicles at the ends of the branches and arising from the bases of the leaves.  Vulnerable Vic.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 552

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