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Muehlenbeckia ephedroides



21st September 2012


A complicated little plant from the North Island of New Zealand. The Muehlenbeckia can be a bit vigorous, sometimes irritatingly so although this one has been moderately restrained so far.
Complicated, because this is a hybrid between M.e. var. ephedroides and M.e. var. muricatula. Why would anybody do such a thing. Well, I have no idea. All I can suggest is that the cultivators of strange almost leafless stringy New Zealand woody plants (and there are plenty of them) have a unique view of the plant world.
I get a lot of pleasure from it, but it is the pleasure of a man looking at something harmless and completely incomprehensible. Village halls that have red fire buckets filled with sand by the emergency exits.

6th February 2018




3rd July 2021


After a long period growing in a tub I planted it out this year.