• Vigorous, fast growing evergreen climber from China and Japan, producing a tangle of twining woody stems.
• Juvenile leaves are lobed; adult leaves are more or less oval and in opposite pairs on the stems.
• Flowers are tube-like, fragrant and nectar filled, ageing from white to yellow, and profuse throughout summer.
• Small shiny black berries follow the flowers in autumn.

Fruit eating birds spread the seeds, stems root down where they touch the ground, and roots make new shoots. This plant is also often dumped on bushland and roadside edges.

Rapidly forms a complete blanket over shrubs and low canopy trees, blocking light, breaking branches, harbouring disease, leading to plant and habitat loss and other weed invasions.

Throughout the Blue Mountains.

'Happy Wanderer' (Hardenbergia violacea); Wonga Wonga Vine (Pandorea pandorana), Banksia Rose (Rosa banksia); Chinese Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) Lower Mountains.

Dig or rip out, removing as much root as possible. Follow up with herbicide treatment. Best not to pull out of trees and shrubs because of the damage likely to be caused.