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Billardiera speciosa

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

Billardiera speciosa is a slender climbing shrub from southern Western Australia, grown for its purple or mauve flowers. It needs well-drained soil, full sun and a frost-free position, and suits mild climates.

Family
Pittosporaceae (Pittospor family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil; tolerates limestone-derived soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect below 0 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Billardiera speciosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to southern Western Australia. It is a slender climber that grows in coastal heath and has narrowly elliptic leaves with the edges rolled under and groups of purple or mauve flowers.

Where it grows

Billardiera speciosa grows in coastal heath on limestone between East Mount Barren and Duke of Orleans Bay in the Esperance Plains bioregions of southern Western Australia.

Other Billardiera plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Billardiera speciosa 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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