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Billardiera variifolia

Billardiera variifolia
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Pittosporaceae (Pittospor family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Billardiera variifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a twining shrub or climber with elliptic adult leaves and groups of deep purple flowers that fade to blue as they age.

Where it grows

This species grows in open woodland, often near creeks and in gullies, often with Billardiera drummondii and is found in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia, especially in the Albany and Stirling Ranges areas.

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 variifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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