Moth plant, Araujia sericifera. Beautiful but yet another invasive species crowding out natives in Aotearoa NZ. Image; Su Leslie 2020
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Just blooming in the wrong place
Zimmerbitch
age is just a (biggish) number
Moth plant, Araujia sericifera. Beautiful but yet another invasive species crowding out natives in Aotearoa NZ. Image; Su Leslie 2020
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Zimmerbitch 
Very lovely Su, even if it is invasive.
Leslie
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It is! I was tempted to take a cutting of the plant we found (not knowing what it was), but am glad I didn’t now.
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It could.d soon take over….
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True, and I’m already fighting a losing battle against a few other invasive species.
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Sometimes I just let them take over. I have a ton of Lily of the Valley. Maybe that’s why I paint them so often…
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I have a plant like that but it isn’t growing everywhere. It’s been in the ground for about 20+ years I guess. I thought mine was called a pandorea or something like that
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Just googled Pandorea, and they do look really similar. Yours is much better behaved 🙂
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It appears so 🙂
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I find it a bit funny that many plants and flowers that aren’t native to an area and are crowding out native plants are so pretty or beautiful themselves.
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I guess they wouldn’t have been introduced — or allowed to survive — if we didn’t find them attractive.
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Good point
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Damn! But it really is so beautiful! 😅
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It is. We really must include this bit of the country on our (increasingly long) road trip. I’m sure if we’d carried on along one stretch of road we’d have found a beach.
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Maybe we should start calling it a road odyssey! 😀 😉
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As long as we aren’t pursued by angry gods, ship-wrecked or imprisoned. Otherwise, sounds fine.
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Hehe! 😉
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We’ll allow it 🙂 🙂
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Pretty plant, invasive or not, so I can see why you were tempted!
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And after the rain, it was looking even nicer.
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