while others twine anticlockwise, including black bryony (Dioscorea communis) and climbing honeysuckles (Lonicera species).

The contrasting rotations of bindweed and honeysuckle was the theme of the satirical song "Misalliance", written and sung by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann. Incidentally, the lyrics confuse the direction of twining, describing honeysuckle as right-handed and bindweed as left-handed.

Horticultural climbing plants

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