Billardiera

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. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Species

Species include:

• Billardiera coriacea Benth.
• Billardiera cymosa F.Muell.
• Billardiera drummondii (C.Morren) L.Cayzer & Crisp
• Billardiera floribunda (Putt.) F.Muell. (White-flowered Billardiera)
• Billardiera fraseri (Hook.) F.Muell. (Elegant Pronaya)
• Billardiera fusiformis Labill. (Australian Bluebell)
• Billardiera heterophylla (Lindl.) L.Cayzer & Crisp (Bluebell Creeper, Purple Appleberry, Australian Bluebell)
• Billardiera laxiflora (Benth.) E.M.Benn.
• Billardiera lehmanniana F.Muell.
• Billardiera longiflora Labill.
• Billardiera macrantha Hook.f.
• Billardiera mutabilis Salisb. (Climbing Appleberry)
• Billardiera nesophila L.Cayzer & D.L.Jones
• Billardiera ovalis Lindl.
• Billardiera procumbens (Hook.)
• Billardiera rubens L.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford
• Billardiera scandens Sm. (Hairy Appleberry)
• Billardiera sericophora F.Muell.
• Billardiera speciosa (Endl.)
• Billardiera uniflora E.M.Benn.
• Billardiera variifolia DC.
• Billardiera venusta (Putt.) L.Cayzer & Crisp
• Billardiera versicolor F.Muell. ex Klatt (Pale Appleberry)
• Billardiera villosa (Turcz.) E.M.Benn.
• Billardiera viridiflora L.Cayzer & D.L.Jones

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