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Billardiera scandens

Botanic Family

Pittosporaceae

Author

Smith

Common Names

• Common Apple-berry
• Hairy Apple Berry
• Apple Dumpling

Geographical Habitats

• New South Wales
• Queensland
• Victoria- Australia

Natural Habitats

• From coastal scrub to high rainforest

Flowering Times

• All year

Fruiting Times

Wiry stemmed twining evergreen woody climbing shrub to 0.5m. Hairy leaves to 40mm x 14mm. Solitary or paired 25mm greenish-yellow or cream flowers with purplish markings, sepals to 10mm long, petals becoming pinker with age, to 20mm long. Hairy yellow-green velvety or glabrous berries sometimes flushed red, to 30mm long.

Edible fruit.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Krussmann 1976
• Jones & Gray 1977, Wrigley & Fagg 1979
• Nicholls 1995
• RHS A-Z
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• ResearchGate