Thunbergia alata spreading

Thunbergia alata grows many, long, climbing and branching stems. They are soft and hairy, well capable of covering their supports in leaves.

Indigenous in the northeast of South Africa, it is here at home in the Jan Marais Nature Reserve in Stellenbosch. The photo was taken in March (Pooley, 1998; Germishuizen and Fabian, 1982).