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Featured: Global Flower Photography 1/2/2018

Hibbertia scandens (also known as snake vine, climbing Guinea flower or golden Guinea vine) is a vine which is native to Australia.
The yellow flowers have been reported as having an unpleasant odour1 variously described as similar to mothballs2 or animal urine3 or sweet but with “a pronounced faecel element”.3 The leaves are elliptic or obovate and average 6 cm in length.
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described in 1799 by German botanist Carl Willdenow who gave it the name Dillenia scandens. The specific epithet scandens is derived from Latin, and means “to climb”. In 1805, Swedish botanist Jonas Dryander transferred the species into the genus Hibbertia.
Distribution
Hibbertia scandens occurs in an area that extends from south-eastern New South Wales upwards to north-east Queensland.
In popular culture
Hibbertia scandens appeared on an Australian postage stamp in 1999.
Cultivation
This spe...

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