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Muehlenbeckia complexa
Also called Wireplant, Wire Plant, Lacy Wirevine, Mattressvine, Australian Ivy, Mattress Wire Vine, Scrambling Pohuehue
Maidenhair vine (Muehlenbeckia complexa) is a wiry, tangled climber or prostrate shrub from New Zealand and Lord Howe Island, grown for its fine, airy stems and tiny leaves. It thrives in sun or light shade and needs good drainage, and it suits coastal gardens.
Muehlenbeckia complexa is a plant commonly known as pohuehue (Māori: pōhuehue), although this name also applies to some other climbers such as Muehlenbeckia australis.
It can be found growing throughout all three main islands of New Zealand (as well as Lord Howe Island in Australia), where it grows in a variety of habitats, occurring in coastal, lowland and montane regions. M. complexa is often found growing in company of Plagianthus divaricatus, shore ribbonwood.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Muehlenbeckia complexa 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.
