Thursday, 17 August 2023

Clematis vitalba 葡萄葉鐵線蓮

Common name: Traveller's-joy, Old Man's Beard
Scientific name: Clematis vitalba 葡萄葉鐵線蓮
Genus: Clematis 鐵線蓮屬
Family: Family: Ranunculaceae 毛茛, buttercup family

Remarks*: 

Origin: native in Britain and neophyte (established after 1500 AD) in Ireland and the Channel Islands.

Date: 9th Aug

92 A perennial woody climber, can reach up to 30m.

87 The petioles (up and down) and the ridged stem (horizontal one). 

85

88 Odd pinnately compund leaf with 5 leaflets.

89 The underside of the leaf.

74 The flower bud showing the hairy underside of the sepals.

79 Newly open flower showing stamens still not spreading out, but stigmas already protruding out.

81 Four greenish white, hairy sepals.

71 A fully open, fragrant flower, 2cm in diameter, with most of the outer stamens spreading out. Some of the anthers at the outermost stamens had already withered.

72

83 Furits.

76

76-1 Achenes with long silky plumes.

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