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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.
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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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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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