Hibbertia Scandens - 25 seeds

HIBBERTIA SCANDENS    “Snake Vine”

Family: Dilleniaceae  

Sprouting: 91-258 days.

NOT EDIBLE!!! While the fruit looks attractive enough to eat, it is best not to as it produces an unpleasant burning sensation in the mouth and lips a minute or so after eating.

Hibbertia scandens grows mostly from south-eastern New South Wales upwards to north-east Queensland.  Known as snake vine, climbing guinea flower, golden guinea vine or gold guinea plant. Growing to 4 m in length, it is a climbing or sprawling evergreen shrub with glossy leaves and solitary, bright yellow flowers (reported as having an unpleasant odour), native to Australia but widely cultivated.

Growing Hibbertia from seed can be difficult and most plants are grown from cuttings.  

Photo of flower: Karelj, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons; retrieved 22 May 2024 –3.01pm AEST and edited using Canva.

Photo of seeds: - June Parkin; Location: Sydney NSW, Australia; Date: 6OCT2023

****Please note: these are seeds (we are NOT selling these as live plants). Quarantine restrictions and costs prohibit us from selling these seeds to WA, Tas, and Internationally.