Climbing plants use different methods to support themselves as they grow. Plants like Chinese Wisteria (Wisteria senensis) use twining stems that wrap themselves around a support like a tree, column, pole, trellis, or wire.
Chinese species ascend from left to right (clockwise), and Japanese (Wisteria floribunda) from right to left (counterclockwise). Twining direction is a useful feature to help with identification…
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