Love Creeper
Glycine tabacina
Other Names: Native Soybean, Twining Glycine, Lover's Twine
Family: Fabaceae
Habitat: Sheltered forests and rainforest gullies
Uses: Tubers (tap-roots) edible and were reported to be eaten by Aboriginies.
References: Robinson
About Love Creeper
A slender trailer (not climbing), found in moist situations on better soils, usualyl among dense undergrowth, especially grasses. Pea flowers, 6-10mm long, in October-December, variable in colour, mostly mauve.
Photo: Mitchell Park, Cattai NSW.
See Also
Australian Mammals
Australian Birds
Australian Reptiles
Australian Frogs
Australian Fish
Australian Spiders and Their Faces
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