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Cardiospermum halicacabum
Balloon Vine
Love in a puff
Sapindacea
The vine grows to a height of about six metres and has
alternating ferny leaves growing from slender, hairy stems.
The pendulous three angled
fruits are up to five centimeters long and have three
compartments containing a single black spherical seed with a
white heart tattoo.
This attractive, and in some
states (declared weed)
can be found growing wild in waste places and roadsides. It
often grows in a dense mass that has the potential to
smother native plants so is sometimes regarded as a pest,
which is a shame because it has very useful medicinal
properties.
We can no longer supply these
seeds because of it's status as a weed.
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