Scientific Name: Billardiera macrantha

Common Name: forest appleberry

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Pittosporaceae

Form Description: Strongly climbing and branching vines often forming leafy blankets over supporting understorey shrubs, to 5–6m tall; stems shining brown.

Flowers: Flowers solitary in upper leaf axils, pendulous; petals greenish yellow with bright green tips in bud.

Fruit: Berry – firm, glossy, blue, oblong, 10–18mm long. Seeds numerous, oval, 2 mm long, surrounded by soft pulp.

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Habitat Notes

Widespread in forest margins and in sheltered gullies among non-forest habitats.

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Seed Information