- Pronunciation: SMILE-axe aus-TRAL-is
- Common Name: Barbed Wire Vine, Austral Sarsaparilla, Smile-and-relax
- Type: Vine, Climber
- Family: SMILACEAE
- Flowers: Greenish white, spring and all year
- Fruit: Black globular Berry.
- Vegetation Type: Wet Eucalypt Forest,
- Species List: Kennilworth Fig Tree Walk, Bush food, Craft, FI Podberscek, Weyba Nature Refuge, Eumarella Rd., Peregian Boardwalk, Pomona School Oval, Boreen Point Caravan Park, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, NNP Parkedge/Alex, Cooroy Mill Site, Noosa High School, NNP service road, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, BSDoonan, Tewantin Forest Gyndier, Fraser Island, Mill Point, Johns, NNS, NNP Viewland/Brunjes, Boreen Point, Leslie Drive Roundabout, TAFE, NNP Tanglewood, NNP Palm Grove, Dandaloo, BHNR, Stratford Park, Upper Yandina Creek, Heritage Park,
Cultural Notes
Bush food: Ripe black fruits eaten raw.
Older stems used for firesticks.
Identification Notes
Stems prickly; Leaves with 5 longitudinal Veins, lower surface not Glaucous; tepals 3--4 mm long. Deterrent. Semi shade. Shade.
Landscaping Notes
Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery
Associated Fauna
Butterfly host Plant: Cephenesblue, Miskin's blue.
