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'''''Billardiera''''' is a [[genus]] of small vines and shrubs which is endemic to [[Australia]].
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Billardiera (after J. J. Labillardiere, French botanist and traveler). Pittosporaceae. Six or eight species of tender Australian undershrubs. with twining branches, and terminal flowers suitable for outdoor planting South and for growing under glass.
 
Billardiera (after J. J. Labillardiere, French botanist and traveler). Pittosporaceae. Six or eight species of tender Australian undershrubs. with twining branches, and terminal flowers suitable for outdoor planting South and for growing under glass.
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* ''[[Billardiera coriacea]]'' Benth.
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* ''[[Billardiera cymosa]]'' F.Muell.
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* ''[[Billardiera drummondii]]'' ([[Charles François Antoine Morren|C.Morren]]) L.Cayzer & Crisp
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* ''[[Billardiera floribunda]]'' (Putt.) F.Muell. (White-flowered Billardiera)
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* ''[[Billardiera fraseri]]'' (Hook.) F.Muell. (Elegant Pronaya)
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* ''[[Billardiera fusiformis]]'' Labill. (Australian Bluebell)
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* ''[[Billardiera heterophylla]]'' (Lindl.) L.Cayzer & Crisp (Bluebell Creeper, Purple Appleberry, Australian Bluebell)
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* ''[[Billardiera laxiflora]]'' (Benth.) E.M.Benn.
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* ''[[Billardiera lehmanniana]]'' F.Muell.
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* ''[[Billardiera longiflora]]'' Labill.  
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* ''[[Billardiera macrantha]]'' Hook.f.
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* ''[[Billardiera mutabilis]]'' Salisb. (Climbing Appleberry)
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* ''[[Billardiera nesophila]]'' L.Cayzer & D.L.Jones
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* ''[[Billardiera ovalis]]'' Lindl.  
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* ''[[Billardiera procumbens]]'' (Hook.)
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* ''[[Billardiera rubens]]'' L.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford
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* ''[[Billardiera scandens]]'' Sm.    (Hairy Appleberry)
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* ''[[Billardiera sericophora]]'' F.Muell.
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* ''[[Billardiera speciosa]]'' (Endl.)
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* ''[[Billardiera uniflora]]'' E.M.Benn.
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* ''[[Billardiera variifolia]]'' DC.
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* ''[[Billardiera venusta]]'' (Putt.) L.Cayzer & Crisp
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* ''[[Billardiera versicolor]]'' F.Muell. ex Klatt (Pale Appleberry)
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* ''[[Billardiera villosa]]'' (Turcz.) E.M.Benn.
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* ''[[Billardiera viridiflora]]'' L.Cayzer & D.L.Jones
  
 
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==References==
 
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
 
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
 
<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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Billardiera scandens fruit


Plant Characteristics
Cultivation
Scientific Names

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Billardiera is a genus of small vines and shrubs which is endemic to Australia.


Read about Billardiera in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Billardiera (after J. J. Labillardiere, French botanist and traveler). Pittosporaceae. Six or eight species of tender Australian undershrubs. with twining branches, and terminal flowers suitable for outdoor planting South and for growing under glass.

Leaves entire or sinuate, alternate: fls. solitary or 2-3 together, sometimes as many as 15, yellow, purple or rarely blue, showy in B. longiflora: fr. succulent or fleshy, edible in some species. Prop, by cuttings under a bell-jar or by seeds, which, at least in England, are produced freely in some of the species. B. longiflora, and B. scandens are cult. abroad as greenhouse climbers. B. cymosa is cult. outdoors at Santa Barbara, Calif.


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