Apple-berry

Billardiera scandens, the common apple-berry, is a slender twining or scrambling woody climber of the Pittosporaceae native to eastern and southern Australia. Its wiry stems are at first softly hairy and trail over shrubs and the forest floor or twine through other vegetation. The alternate leaves are narrow, lance-shaped to oblong, with smooth or slightly wavy margins, often silky-hairy when young. The flowers hang singly or in small clusters on slender drooping stalks; they are bell-shaped and tubular, greenish-yellow ageing to purplish, with five recurved petal tips. The fruit is an oblong, fleshy green to yellowish berry up to about 2.5 cm long, sweet and edible when fully ripe and soft. It grows in open forest, woodland, and heath across a range of soils in temperate eastern Australia.