Apocynaceae Wildflowershttps://www.exploroz.com/wildflowers/apocynaceae/rss/apocynaceaeA wildflower is a flower that grows in the wild, meaning it was not intentionally seeded or planted. Use this database to help you find and identify Australia's abundant Wildflowers.en-auCopyright 2001 - 2024 I.T. Beyond Pty Ltd1440https://cdn.exploroz.com/exploroz/images/logo.pngExplorOz Logohttps://www.exploroz.com/wildflowers/apocynaceae/rss/apocynaceaeCaustic Vinehttps://www.exploroz.com/wildflowers/519+caustic-vinehttps://www.exploroz.com/wildflowers/519+caustic-vine<a href="https://www.exploroz.com/wildflowers/519+caustic-vine"><img src="https://cdn.exploroz.com/images/GalleryTag_W519__TN130.jpg" border="0" align="left" hspace="5" /></a> Members of the genus Sarcostemma are known as climbing milkweeds or caustic bushes. They are found across Africa and tropical Asia, in Australia, and in parts of North America. These plants are perennial flowering shrubs with trailing vines or lianas. They are often adapted to heat and/or desert conditions. Some have few or no leaves and photosynthesize in the tissues of the green stems. The soft stems are filled with a milky white latex that is poisonous and caustic in some species. Sarcostemma viminale is a shrub or climber, 0.3-5 m high. Flowers are white/cream-yellow-green. It grows on sand, gravel, skeletal soils, sandstone, limestone, laterite, rock outcrops and slopes.<br /> Family: Apocynaceae &nbsp; Genus: Sarcostemma &nbsp; Species: viminale &nbsp; Main Flower Colour: Other<br />equinoxSun, 28 Sep 2014 11:53:00 GMTNative Pear https://www.exploroz.com/wildflowers/583+native-pearhttps://www.exploroz.com/wildflowers/583+native-pear<a href="https://www.exploroz.com/wildflowers/583+native-pear"><img src="https://cdn.exploroz.com/images/GalleryTag_W583__TN130.jpg" border="0" align="left" hspace="5" /></a> Shrubs with twining branches to c. 1 m high, new growth pubescent. Leaves with lamina ovate to narrow-lanceolate, 3–9 cm long, 10–30 mm wide, apex long-acuminate, base cuneate to cordate, glabrous, mostly with 2 basal glands; petiole 10–30 mm long. Inflorescence dense, ± umbellate. Calyx lobes c. 2 mm long. Corolla 5–8 mm long, creamy above, greenish to purplish below. Corona tubular with 20 narrow-acuminate lobes, longer than anthers and ± as long as corolla. Follicles ovoid, 3–5 cm long, acuminate, sometimes falcate, pubescent, thin-walled; seeds with coma 10–25 mm long. <br /> Family: Apocynaceae &nbsp; Genus: Cynanchum &nbsp; Species: floribundum &nbsp; Main Flower Colour: White<br />Stephen L (Clare) SAWed, 19 Nov 2014 05:33:00 GMT