Calling Card Vine
Entada pusaetha
Also known as Elephant Creeper, Garbee Bean, Maekey Bean
- Habit
- Liana
- Flowering
- March-September
How to identify Calling Card Vine
Identify Calling Card Vine by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a liana habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Massive woody pods over a meter long (elephant creeper).
- Confirm leaf shape: Feathery bipinnate leaflets.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: March-September.
- Confirm it sits within the Mimosaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Calling Card Vine.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Entada pusaetha
- Genus
- Entada
- Family
- Mimosaceae
- Habit
- Liana
- Habitat
- Semi-Evergreen forests along sides of rivers and streams
- Distribution
- Tropical Africa, Sri Lanka, India, China, Malesia to Australia
- Flowering & fruiting
- March-September
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Feathery bipinnate leafletsrecorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Calling Card Vine itself; the rest are typical of the Mimosaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Legume
Typical of the Mimosaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
About Calling Card Vine
Calling Card Vine (Entada pusaetha) belongs to the Mimosaceae family, where it grows as a woody climber. It grows in semi-Evergreen forests along sides of rivers and streams. Flowering and fruiting run from March to September.
Mimosaceae
Mimosa/Acacia family
Calling Card Vine belongs to the Mimosaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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