Unknown trailing plant…
Canon 5D f11 1/5s ISO 400 40mm Voiglander Ultron
I have always been led to believe that this vigorous plant was Swedish Ivy Plectranthus australis. However now I cannot be so sure as while the plant is similar in form the flowers are yellow and this one grows and grows and grows! Its leaves have a succulent quality. It is thigmotropic, meaning it does not cling to walls with the roots when it grows. It requires very little water and leaning towards being a succulent it holds what it has in its leaves. I suspect that it may collect its water from condensation that forms on its thick leaves. This makes it ideal as a foundation planting on the shady sides of buildings. I originally found a 100mm piece of this plant that had been broken off the mother plant by a car that had driven over a kerb in the Perth central public library. I took it home and potted it up and to my delight it grew. Twenty years later it has flourished and occupies almost half of the planting on the southern side of my house.
