Billardiera cymosa

Taxobox
name = Sweet Apple-berry


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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Apiales
familia = Pittosporaceae
genus = "Billardiera"
species = "B. cymosa"
binomial = "Billardiera cymosa"
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Sweet apple-berry, "Billardiera cymosa", is a small vine native to woodland and coastal heath of Victoria and South Australia.

The leaves are slender and stems are twining. Flowers are bluish, greenish or cream. The fruit is a sausage shaped berry 1-1.5 cm long. [ Low,T., "Wild Food Plants of Australia", 1988. ISBN 0-207-16930-6]

Uses

Sweet edible apple-berry fruit have an aniseed like flavor.

References