About Billardiera cymosa F.Muell.
Billardiera cymosa, commonly known as sweet apple-berry, is most often a slender climbing or twining plant. Its new shoots are covered in soft hairs, while mature stems become hairless and take on a reddish-brown color. Adult leaves grow in an alternate arrangement, and are shaped narrowly egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic, or almost linear. They measure 30–65 mm (1.2–2.6 in) long and 6–13 mm (0.24–0.51 in) wide, and attach to stems via a short petiole. Its flowers are grouped into corymbs holding around five to twelve individual flowers. Softly-hairy bracts and bracteoles are present on the flower clusters, but these structures drop off as the flowers open. The sepals are yellowish-green or brown, lance-shaped, and 2–6 mm (0.079–0.236 in) long. Petals are pale blue or pale purplish, 11–20 mm (0.43–0.79 in) long, and form a tube with spreading lobes. Flowering takes place from October to January. When mature, the fruit is a dark purple berry 12–15 mm (0.47–0.59 in) long that contains many seeds. This species grows in mallee and eucalypt woodland habitats in south-eastern South Australia and western Victoria. Subspecies cymosa occurs on the Yorke Peninsula, and in the Southern Lofty and Murray Basin areas, with its range extending into the Wimmera region of western Victoria. Subspecies pseudocymosa occurs mainly on the Eyre Peninsula, where it grows alongside subsp. cymosa in parts of the peninsula. It also grows on the northern plains of Victoria, from Wyperfeld to Mildura.
