Billardiera mutabilis Salisb.

Apple-berry

Twiners and climbers in all early stages. Leaves narrow-elliptic, slightly curving, 40-60 mm long _ 4-10 mm wide, margins wavy; both surfaces rapidly without hairs, glossy. Flowers solitary or paired, nodding on long, slender flower stalks. Petals cohering in throat, then free and slightly reflexing, salverform; green-yellow, throat and blade becoming blotched navy blue with age. Fruit glossy green, a true berry with numerous seeds embedded in the fleshy pulp; cylindrical, mostly to 20 mm long.

NSW, Vic, Tas.

Source: Cayzer, L. (2002). Pittosporaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

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Distribution map
kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Apiales
family       Pittosporaceae
genus        Billardiera Sm.