Fiery Jewel is a beautiful gem of the butterfly world, the underside of the wing being most spectacular with reds and orange, contrasting with black brown, purplish above. Copper Jewel is not dissimilar to the previous species but copper orange above. Both the Jewels, along with some of the blues have an unusual association with a few species of ants which must be present on the larval food plant and which provide protection for the larvae within the ant colony. M icrocitrus australasica - Finger Lime which is related to the domestic citrus has small leaves and sharp spines with edible fruit, shrub to small tree. Orchard Butterfly , a large common showy butterfly of urban and bushland areas.
Males are black above with pale cream contrasting wing panels with red spots.
The Dingy Swallowtail and Capaneus Butterfly , both showy species also utilise this plant. Zig Zig Vine, a tall woody climber of rainforests with waxy, orange coloured edible fruits. Pale Green Triangle - a pale version of the Blue Triangle with a similar nervous fluttering flight when feeding at flowers. Four Bar Swordtail is white above with four brown-black bands and several blue and yellow spots, the extended tail tips are black, edged white. A ristolochia praevenosa - a vine of temperate subtropical and littoral rainforests, and Aristolochia deltantha, Mountain Aristolochia, a vine of the higher altitudinal rainforests, both have interesting cream and mauve or maroon flowers.