Cape-ivy

Senecio angulatus, commonly known as cape-ivy or creeping groundsel, is a vigorous evergreen climbing or scrambling shrub in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to South Africa and naturalised in many temperate regions including Australia and parts of the Mediterranean. Stems are succulent when young, becoming woody with age, and can reach several metres in length, scrambling over supports or forming dense ground mats. The leaves are alternate, somewhat fleshy, broadly ovate to triangular, glossy dark green, with shallow angular lobes or coarse teeth on the margins (giving rise to the specific epithet angulatus). Flower heads are bright yellow, daisy-like with short ray florets surrounding a yellow disc, and are borne in large terminal corymbs in autumn and early winter. The fruits are small cypselae bearing a pappus of fine white hairs, dispersed by wind. The species is regarded as an environmental weed in many areas.