Billardiera scandens

Dumplings or Apple Berry

Family:            Pittosporaceae

Plant:              A twining climber or scrambling plant with slender stems up to 3m long.

Flower:         Pendulous bell-shaped, tubular cream to greenish yellow flowers 1-2.5cm long. Flowers borne singly or 2-3 together on long slender stalks.

Flowering:      September-December.

Fruit:               Fleshy, furry, yellowish-green to purple cylindrical berry 1-4cm long and 1-1.5cm wide.

Leaves:          Soft, furry, narrow lanceolate 3-5cm long and up to 1.5cm wide with wavy margins.

Habitat:           In wet sclerophyll forest, rainforest margins and very occasionally in coastal heathland.

Features:       Soft, furry, pale green leaves. Pendulous bell-shaped flowers. Cylindrical fruit.

Name:            

Billardiera      After the French botanist Jacques-Julian de la Billardiere.

scandens       From Latin scandens = to climb (referring to its climbing habit).

Search Criteria

 

Type

Climber/Scrambler

Flowers

Form

Tubular/Bell-shaped, Single

 

Colour(s)

Cream, Yellow, Green

 

Petal/Sepal No.

-

 

Flowering Month

9, 10, 11, 12

Fruit

Type       

Berry

 

Colour

Green, Purple

 

Other Features

Fleshy

Leaves

Arrangement

Alternate

 

Type       

Simple

 

Shape

Oval

 

Length    

Short

 

Margins  

Entire, Wavy

 

Attachment               

Unstalked

 

Other Features

Hairy, Soft

Bark

-

Habitat

Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest,

 

Heathland