• Vigorous highly invasive climber from tropical Africa, Asia and America; climbs by means of tendrils to the top of the canopy, blanketing vegetation at all levels.
• Light green leaves are compound with three sets of three leaflets which are thin, toothed, and softly hairy.
• Small white flowers are produced from summer to winter.
• The fruit is a light green thin-walled, papery, inflated capsule resembling a ribbed balloon, containing three black seeds.

Often dumped on bushland edges. The capsules can be carried by wind and float freely on water, dispersing the plant along waterways. Also regrows from root fragments.

Favours creeklines and the margins of rainforest, grows rapidly into the tops of trees, forms a thick curtain of stems, excludes light, harbours pests and diseases. Weight contributes to canopy collapse and ecosystem destruction.

Lower Blue Mountains.

Old Man's Beard (Clematis aristata); Wonga Vines (Pandorea species); Wombat Berry (Eustrephus latifolius); Water Vine (Cissus antarctica). Clematis (Clematis montana).

Dig out or treat as for Vines and Scramblers. Bag Capsules. Follow up with seedling removal.