Snake Vine

Did you know

• The bright yellow flowers smell faintly unpleasant—almost like overripe cheese—because snake vine is pollinated by native flies and beetles, not bees.
• Snake vine grows wild in Australian coastal dunes and rainforest edges, where its tough leathery leaves resist salt spray and sun damage that wilts most other vines.
• Each crinkled yellow flower lasts only a single day, but the vine produces them continuously from spring through autumn—a single plant can put out thousands per season.
• The genus Hibbertia honors George Hibbert, an 18th-century English botanist and amateur cricketer who funded plant collecting expeditions to Australia and South Africa.
• Aboriginal peoples of New South Wales used the long flexible stems as natural twine for binding tools, and the bright flowers as dye sources for ceremonial body paint.

Color meanings

Uses

• Trellis vine
• Coastal gardens
• Australian native gardens
• Erosion control