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White Flowered Billardiera

Billardiera floribunda

White Flowered Billardiera
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

White-flowered billardiera is a twining shrub or climber from south-west Western Australia, grown for its white to pink flowers and glossy leathery leaves. It needs a sheltered spot with reasonable moisture and can be trained up a support.

Family
Pittosporaceae (Pittospor family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly during establishment and in dry summers, letting the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, slightly acidic to neutral soil or a peat-based mix.
Temperature
10–28 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Billardiera floribunda, commonly known as white-flowered billardiera, is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a robust twining shrub or climber that has thick, leathery, elliptic leaves and white or pinkish flowers arranged in groups of ten or more.

Where it grows

White-flowered billardiera grows in forest and woodland from near Perth and south to Augusta then east to Albany and the Porongurups in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Billardiera plants

Billardiera coriacea · Billardiera cymosa · Billardiera drummondii · Elegant Pronaya · Australian Bluebell · Bluebell Creeper · Billardiera laxiflora · Kurup · Purple apple berry · Mountain Apple Berry · Common Apple Berry · Mountain Apple Berry

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Billardiera floribunda by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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