Talk:Pandorea pandorana

Used for making spears?
A paper by Cleland and Tindale describes Tecoma doratoxylon as being used for making spears. It seems unlikely that this is a possible use of Pandorea pandorana, by "people of the Central and Western Deserts", since P. pandorana does not grow in deserts and since PlantNET describes it as growing in "coastal rainforest or as a scrambler or climber in moist gullies in sclerophyll forest and woodland, frequently in rocky sites.

According to the Australian Plant Census, Tecoma doratoxylon is a synonym of Pandorea doratoxylon and "Flora NT" gives P. doratoxylon as having the common name "spearwood", its uses including "weapons and implements, spears" and its distribution as being widespread in the southern part of the Northern Territory. Seems more likely that Cleland and Tindale were referring to P. doratoxylon.

I propose to move the reference to spear-making from this article to the article about P. doratoxylon, but hope to the get a second opinion from "watchers" of this page. Gderrin (talk) 10:59, 21 October 2021 (UTC)


 * The problem is compounded by the lack of agreement between the national and state herbaria. The Australian Plant Census accepts Pandorea doratoxylon, and that name is accepted in the Northern Territory, but not by the Western Australian Herbarium (=P. pandorana), the National Herbarium of New South Wales (=P. pandorana subsp. pandorana), nor by the State Herbarium of South Australia (= P. pandorana). Pandorea doratoxylon is also accepted by Plants of the World Online who give its distribution as "eastern Australia"!