A long-lived scrambling or climbing plant growing up to 5 m tall. Its alternately arranged leaves (3-5 cm long) are hairless and slightly fleshy in nature. These leaves are egg-shaped in outline or somewhat diamond-shaped with shallowly lobed or toothed margins. Its daisy-like flower-heads are arranged in loose clusters at the tips of the branches. Each of these yellow flower-heads has several tiny tubular flowers surrounded by 4-6 'petals' (6-9 mm long). Its pale brown 'seeds' (2-2.5 mm long) are topped with a ring of long white hairs (6-7 mm long).