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 An
Illustrated Guide to
Common Weeds
of New Zealand
Cobaea
scandens
cathedral
bells
Family
COBAEACEAE
 Reproduced
from
Common
Weeds of New Zealand
by Ian Popay, Paul Champion & Trevor James
ISBN 0 473 09760 5
by kind permission of the
New
Zealand Plant Protection Society
Publication or other use of images or descriptive
text on these pages is unauthorised unless written permission is
obtained from the authors and publisher.
Appropriate acknowledgement
of the publication Common Weeds of New Zealand must always
be given.
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Fast-growing,
evergreen perennial climber with tendrils on its leaves, growing
up to 2-3 m tall. Large, bell-shaped purple flowers in summer. Leaflets
in three pairs, dark green, with tendrils.
- Flowers Light
to deep purple, green at first, bell-shaped 6-7 cm long. Flowers
Dec-May.
- Fruit Capsule
5.5-8.5 cm long, with broad seeds 10-15 mm long including the
wing.
- Leaves Leaflets
usually in three pairs (including the basal pair), with tendrils.
Each leaflet oval, 4-12 cm long by 2-5 cm wide, dark green above,
whitish underneath, with a brown stalk. Mid-rib with twining tendrils.
- Stems Angled.
Habitat
Trees, shrubs, hedges
and unkempt places.
Distribution
Scattered, in frost-free
localities in the Auckland region, Waikato and Wellington Province
in NI. At Karamea (Westland) in SI. Originally from Central and
South America.
Comments
Listed on the National
Pest Plant Accord (see Introduction for details).
Derivation
of botanical name
Cobaea after
Fr. Bernado Coba, 18th cent. Spanish Jesuit missionary and botanist;
scandens (Lat.) = climbing.
Web-notes:
Weed Links
On this site
Reproduced from Common Weeds
of New Zealand:
External Links
 Weedbusters
New Zealand
- Weedbusters is a weeds awareness and education programme that aims to
protect New Zealand's environment from the increasing weed problem.
- AgPest
- A free tool to assist farmers and agricultural professionals in decision-making regarding weed and pest identification, biology, impact and management.
 New Zealand Weeds Key
- An interactive identification key to the weeds of New Zealand. Developed at Landcare Research.
New
Zealand Plant Conservation Network naturalised plants
- Search for information on more than 2500 naturalised and weedy plants.
 New
Zealand Plant Protection Society
- Their main objective: "To pool and exchange information on the biology
of weeds, invertebrate and vertebrate pests, pathogens and beneficial organisms
and methods for modifying their effects."
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 Massey
University Weeds Database- A site providing information about New Zealand weeds and weed control.
It has a series of pages showing pictures of New Zealand weeds, notes on
identification and control. It also provides information on a university
paper entitled Controlling Weeds.
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