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09-APR-2009

Climbing milkweed

Joshua Tree National Park, CA

(Funastrum cynanchoides)

This is a really strange plant. You can tell it's milkweed by the shape of
the flowers, but it grows as a vine that gets all tangled up with itself,
forming bundles that look like stranded wire. Here, it looks like the new
vines are growing out of, and getting tangled up in, last year's growth.


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