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The South African Equivalent of Bindweed?

By Danielcarruthers
The South African Equivalent of Bindweed?

Thunbergia in the wild

I may have been excited to see Thunbergia scrambling way up into the trees, but when I mentioned it to someone, their comment was “That thing?  It’s a weed that we are always having to pull out of the garden.”  Maybe that is winter’s gift to us – it stops a plant we treasure for its autumn color from becoming a pest that we seek to eradicate.

 


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