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Billardiera longiflora

Botanic Family

Pittosporaceae

Author

Labillardiere

Common Names

• Purple Apple-berry
• Appleberry
• Climbing Blueberry

Geographical Habitats

• Tasmania - Australia

Natural Habitats

• Damp forests & by streams
• coastal woodland

Flowering Times

• Aug-Nov (Australia)

Fruiting Times

Slender wiry evergreen stemmed woody climber, older branches lenticellate. Leaves to 35mm x 3mm. Solitary flowers with purple-blue sepals to 5mm long, petals green-yellow aging blue to 20mm long. Unilocular glabrous purple berries to 25mm x 10mm, rarely red, pink or white.

Berries edible.

Further References

• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Jones & Gray 1977
• Johns 1979
• Wrigley & Fagg 1979
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• ResearchGate