Description:
Fast-growing perennial vine with milky juice.  Stems twining, slender, woody, sometimes branched, typically less than 12 meters long.  Older growth glabrous or nearly  so, new growth covered with short white hairs.  Leaves opposite, narrowly triangular, bases truncate to slightly lobed, 5-12 cm long, 2-6 cm wide.  Upper surfaces glabrous, glossy dark green.  Lower surfaces gray-green.  Flowers clusters (cymes) 2-10 flowered, develop from just below leaf axils, fragrant, waxy, white to pink, 2-3 cm long, about 1-2 cm wide.  Petals fused, 5-lobed, bell to funnel-shaped.  Fruit: pods narrowly ovoid, pendant, 8-15 cm long, 4-5 cm in diameter, pale-green.  Seeds with numerous silky white, deciduous hairs.  Flowers: summer.

Distribution:
Santa Cruz Island, throughout much of southern and central California, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida.  Native of Brazil and Peru.

(1) Species first discovered at this location by Dirk Rodriguez, Channel Islands National Park.  Plant was subsequently removed.
(2) Two plants found and removed by Ken Owen, Channel Islands Restoration