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Plant identification => Plant identification => Topic started by: JTh on November 24, 2019, 05:07:56 PM

Title: Climbing (?) bush with large fruits ID'd by Fermi as Araujia sericifera
Post by: JTh on November 24, 2019, 05:07:56 PM
I was walking in the neighbourhood here in L'Alfàs del Pi, Alicante (Spain) and I saw several bushes with large fruits that I have never seen before. I'm not sure if they were climbers or bushes leaning on the fence along the road. The fruits were large (6-7 cm long), some of them turning purple, There were also some dry seed capsules, some of them had seeds attached to long, w.hite, silky fibres.
Does anybody recognize this?

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49112729687_36c1a73973_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hPVztv)
_B237815.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hPVztv) by Jorun Tharaldsen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/46063510@N03/), on Flickr

Young seeds:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49112031953_df0bb01468_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hPS14B)
_B237816.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hPS14B) by Jorun Tharaldsen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/46063510@N03/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49112730922_6e0dc59d37_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hPVzQN)
_B237817.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hPVzQN) by Jorun Tharaldsen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/46063510@N03/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49112541081_41a6c45d5a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hPUBpF)
_B237818.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hPUBpF) by Jorun Tharaldsen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/46063510@N03/), on Flickr



Title: Re: Climbing (?) bush with large fruits
Post by: Fermi on November 25, 2019, 06:25:13 AM
If it is a vine it could be Araujia sericifera the cruel vine or false choko
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Climbing (?) bush with large fruits
Post by: Umbrian on November 25, 2019, 08:59:36 AM
I  think you are right Fermi although mine has never had purple tinged seed pods. It always amazes me that the small white flowers produce such large seed pods.  It is a prolific self -seeder
by the way.
Title: Re: Climbing (?) bush with large fruits ID'd by Fermi as Araujia sericifera
Post by: JTh on November 25, 2019, 05:05:07 PM
Thank you for  the identification, Fermi, I'm sure you are right, I think it is a climber as well.
Title: Re: Climbing (?) bush with large fruits ID'd by Fermi as Araujia sericifera
Post by: Caroline on November 27, 2019, 09:16:21 PM
Known here as moth vine, and a menace in native bush. I wage constant war on it, collecting the pods before they ripen, and removing the vines when I can get at them.  When cut, the stems bleed a sticky white sap. I've never seen a purple pod, but in all other respects it looks right!