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October 23, 2007 : Billardiera scandens

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Keywords: Pittosporaceae | Billardiera scandens Sm. | Berowra Valley Regional Park, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Billardiera scandens

A thank you to David M. aka petrichor@Flickr of Sydney, Australia for submitting today's photograph (original | BPotD Flickr Group Pool). David's weblog, dedicated mostly to plants (and plant photographs) of Australia is here: Kipili.com.

Billardiera scandens is a native of eastern Australia, where it is commonly known as apple berry, common appleberry, apple dumpling or snotberry. As you might guess with its apple-related common names, the ripe fruits are indeed edible. It is most often an evergreen climbing vine or groundcover, though will sometimes form a small shrub. The genus Billardiera is endemic to Australia, though most species occur in the west.

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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at October 23, 2007 6:17 AM

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Great photo. I appreciate how he also captured the vine clinging to the stalk of another plant. Now, I must arrange a trip to Austrailia!

Posted by: Knox at October 23, 2007 8:18 AM

I'm almost afraid to ask, but I'm going to anyway. To what plant characteristic or feature does the common name "snotberry" refer?

Posted by: Numenaster at October 23, 2007 9:42 AM


lovely picture thank you daniel
was this vine plant taken to the
new world apple dumpling sounds like
old english i like warm apple dumpling
with heavy cream on a cold night
david m web site and blog is ever so good
still hot in florida hopefully a little cooler
in the offing

Posted by: elizabeth a airhart at October 23, 2007 5:05 PM

I'm not certain about the reason for the snotberry name - maybe one of the Australian BPotD readers will know.

Posted by: Daniel Mosquin Author Profile Page at October 23, 2007 11:22 PM

So nice to see yet another plant for Australia. Very fine photograph.
Thank you,
Margaret-Rae

Posted by: Margaret-Rae Davis at October 27, 2007 12:21 PM

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