Senecio scandens
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| Senecio scandens | |
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| Specimen in the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Senecio |
| Species: | S. scandens |
| Binomial name | |
| Senecio scandens Buch.-Ham. (1825) | |
Senecio scandens, also known as climbing Senecio, is a climber in the family Asteraceae that is native to Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.[2]
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Featuring a rhizomatous rootstock, it is a 2-5 metres long evergreen climber that produces slender, scrambling, multibranched woody stems.[2] Frost-tender, it produces yellow daisy-like flowers which are borne in autumn.[3]