Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Billardiera scandens
Common name
Hairy apple berry, Velvet apple-berry, Common apple-berry
Family
Pittosporaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high or sometimes a perennial twiner. New shoots densely hairy, older surfaces rough. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5–8 cm long, 3–18 mm wide, hairy. Flowers 6-24 mm long, greenish yellow to yellow, becoming pinker with age, sepals yellow, tinged pink. Flowers tubular, with 5 lobes, the lobes becoming free to about halfway along the tube, the tips somewhat curved back. Flower stalks stout, 5–12 mm long, flowers erect to nodding. Flowers in clusters of 1-3. Flowers spring-summer. Fruit brown when ripe, hairy, edible.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic (as Billardiera scandens var. brachyantha).
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Billardiera~scandens (accessed 5 January, 2020)
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