Billardiera cymosa

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Sweet apple-berry
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Pittosporaceae
Genus: Billardiera
Species:
B. cymosa
Binomial name
Billardiera cymosa
F.Muell.
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Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium

Billardiera cymosa, the sweet apple-berry, is a small vine native to woodland and coastal heath of Victoria and South Australia.

The leaves are slender and stems are twining. Flowers are bluish, greenish or cream. The fruit is a sausage shaped berry 1–1.5 cm long. [1]

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References

  1. Low,T., Wild Food Plants of Australia, 1988. ISBN   0-207-16930-6