Rounded shrubs, eventually climbing. Leaves alternate, elliptic or broad-ovate. Flowers bell-shaped, 4-6, nodding; petals obovate, free and not recurving; sky blue, pink or icy blue, mostly spring to mid-summer. Anthers about as long as filaments, the tops joined in a ring around the pistil; fruits berry-like (see Billardiera), purplegreen, oblong-cylindrical.

Salt-tolerant. Now established in most eastern states as a garden escape. Hybrids between this species and S. fusiformis are common, and can make specific identification difficult.

WA (mainly coastal).

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.