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Twining Glycine

Glycine clandestina

Also called Love Creeper

Twining Glycine
Photo: John Tann from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Twining glycine (Glycine clandestina), also called love creeper, is a slender native Australian climber in the pea family with three-leaflet leaves and mauve, pale blue or pink pea flowers. It is a scrambling perennial suited to subtropical climates and is best grown in open, sunny to lightly shaded spots where it can twine over grasses or shrubs.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, moderately fertile soil, such as a loam-based mix.
Temperature
15–30 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
E. & SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Glycine clandestina commonly known as twining glycine, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It has green leaves with three leaflets, mauve pea flowers and grows in Tasmania and eastern states of Australia.

Where it grows

Twining glycine grows in woodland, forests and ranges in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania.

Other Glycine plants

Silky Glycine · Basketlike Lobed Soybean · Glycine falcata · Glycine latifolia · Clover Glycine · Soybean · Small Leaf Glycine · Wild Soybean · Glycine · Glycine · Soybean

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Glycine clandestina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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