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Billardiera variifolia

Botanic Family

Pittosporaceae

Author

de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Western Australia - Australia

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• sandy soil
• creekside
• woodlands

Flowering Times

• Jan-Mar May-Aug (Australia)

Fruiting Times

Evergreen woody villous twining vine. Leaves to 25mm x 4mm, pinnatifidly toothed & glabrescent above. 1Blue or cream flowers in many-flowered terminal corymbs with bracts to 2mm long, sepals 8mm long, green with purple striations, deep purple petals fading blue to 15mm long. Fruit a bilocular green fleshy hairy berry to 24mm long.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Jones & Gray 1977
• Wrigley & Fagg 1979
• Nicholls 1995
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• ResearchGate