Climbers
The ability to climb and scramble over the ground or other plants is the only characteristic shared by plants in this category.
Ipomoea tricolor Cav.
Tender deciduous twiner with cordate leaves and reddish-blue trumpet-shaped flowers. Often grown as an annual. [JD, RHSD, Hortus].
Jasminum bidwillii Vis.
Jasminum bidwilli is correctly named Jasminum didymum G.Forst. subsp. lineare (R.Br.) P.Green, which see for further information. It is recorded separately here to assist identification.
Jasminum didymum G.Forst. G.Forst. subsp. didymum
Frost tender, tall woody climber with very variable three-foliate leaves, the leaflets somewhat ovate to lance-shaped, to 8cm long, and axillary or terminal racemes of pure white flowers, each to 2cm long. [Don].
Jasminum glaucum Vahl.
Don relates Jasminum ligustrifolium Lam. to Jasminum glaucum Vahl., a climbing shrub from South Africa with lance-shaped leaves and a three-flowered inflorescence. This plant may be the Jasminum glaucum of Solander and Aiton described in the Hortus Kewensis of 1789.
Jasminum odoratissimum L.
Half-hardy evergreen climber with alternate, bluntish, pinnate leaves, with 3 leaflets, and fragrant whitish-yellow flowers. [Don].
Jasminum officinale L.
Frost-hardy, vigorous, twining, woody, semi-deciduous climber with opposite, pinnate leaves, composed of 5-9 leaflets to 6cm long, and terminal umbel-like cymes of salverform, very fragrant white flowers, to 2cm across, in summer and autumn. To 12m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Jasminum officinale L. var. grandiflorum Kab.
See Jasminum officinale L. for more information on the species. More shrubby and robust than the type grandiflorum has larger, pink-tinged white flowers, to 4cm across. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Jasminum pubescens Willd.
Frost-tender, climbing or straggling evergreen shrub with opposite, ovate, downy leaves and dense clusters of large, often double white, fragrant flowers in the cooler seasons. [RHSD, Hortus].
Jasminum sambac ‘Grand Duke of Tuscany’
A cultivar of Jasminum sambac (L.) Ait. The species is a frost-tender, evergreen twining climber or scrambler of bushy growth, with lustrous leaves in whorls of 3 or opposite, and small cymes of 3-12 salverform, strongly-scented white flowers, 2.5cm across, fading to pink, mainly in summer. ‘Grand duke of Tuscany’ has double flowers, like miniature gardenias. To 3m. [RHSE].
Jasminum volubile Jacq.
Half-hardy, slender evergreen climber with ovate, glossy, privet-like leaflets, a profuse flowerer with fragrant white flowers. [Hortus, FNSW, Don].
Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet
Frost-tender, fast-growing, twining, perennial climber, with leaves composed of three triangular leaflets, and racemes, to 40cm long, of fragrant purple or white pea-like flowers in summer and autumn, followed by 10-15cm long pods containing beans ranging from white to black in colour. To 6m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Lardizabala biternata Ruiz & Pav.
Frost hardy, vigorous, evergreen climber with large leathery leaves, to 10cm long, usually monoecious, sometimes dioecious, with the male flowers borne in pendant racemes, to 10cm long, and the female flowers borne singly, in autumn and winter. The flowers are purple-brown and white and are followed by dark purple, edible fruits, to 8cm long. To 4m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Lisianthus splendens Hook.
Tender, drooping evergreen with pendant red flowers. [JD].
Lonicera capitata [Macarthur]
I have found no reference to a plant of this name. The specific name capitata suggests a species or variety with a distinct rounded head of flowers.
Lonicera caprifolium L.
Fully hardy, woody, deciduous, twining climber with paired, oval leaves, to 10cm long, and axillary whorls of tubular, very fragrant, pink-flushed, creamy-white to yellow flowers, in summer. To 6m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
