Ripogonum album known as the White Supplejack is a common rainforest

Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions based on a minimum normal annual rainfall of 1750-2000 mm...

 vine, found in eastern Australia

Australia

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. The leaves are identified by the longitudinal venation. A stout climber, with stems up to 15 metres long. Flowers are greenish white, and the fruit is a round red berry. Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....

 used the stems for making traps for catching crayfish

Crayfish

Crayfish, crawfish, or crawdads – members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea – are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are related...

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The specific epithet album is from the Latin, referring to the white flowers. This species first appeared in scientific literature in 1810 in the Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. Authored by the prolific Scottish botanist, Robert Brown

Robert Brown (botanist)

Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...

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