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Ripogonum elseyanum
Hairy supplejack is a climbing vine, or sometimes a shrub, from coastal rainforests of Queensland and New South Wales in Australia. It needs humid, shaded to part-shaded conditions and is best grown on a support or in a large pot.
Ripogonum elseyanum, commonly known as hairy supplejack, is a climbing vine, or sometimes a shrub, native to coastal rainforests of New South Wales and Queensland, Australia.
The species was named by Mueller to honour the surgeon and naturalist, Joseph Ravenscroft Elsey (1834–1857), who was with Mueller on the 1856 expedition led by Augustus Gregory.
White Supplejack · Small Leaved Supplejack · Prickly Supplejack · Small Supplejack · Supplejack · Ripogonum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ripogonum elseyanum 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.
