Billardiera

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Billardiera' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/billardiera/). Accessed 2025-01-18.

Family

Pittosporaceae

Species in genus

Billardiera longiflora

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Billardiera' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/billardiera/). Accessed 2025-01-18.

The genus Billardiera commemorates the french botanist Jacques-Julien Houttou de La Billardière. Here a plant of Billardiera heterophylla growing in a private garden in Port-Blanc, Brittany, France. 6 July 2022. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

A genus of a few evergreen Australian climbers, of which only the one described is grown outdoors in the British Isles. The name commemorates J. J. H. de Labillardière, a French botanist who travelled in Australia and published a work on its flora in Paris in 1804.

Billardiera heterophylla, the bluebell creeper, is native to western Australia. Private garden in Port-Blanc, Brittany, France. 6 July 2022. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

The fruits of Billardiera heterophylla consist of cylindrical purplish-green berries, sausage-shaped and smooth when ripe. Private garden in Port-Blanc, Brittany, France. 6 July 2022. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Close up on the sausage-shaped fruits of Billardiera heterophylla. Private garden in Port-Blanc, Brittany, France. 6 July 2022. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

The flowers of Billardiera heterophylla have five petals up to 1 cm long which may be white to deep blue or pinkish in colour. Private garden in Port-Blanc, Brittany, France. 6 July 2022. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Close up on the flowers of Billardiera heterophylla. The inflorescence is a single hanging flower or a hanging group of up to five flowers. Private garden in Port-Blanc, Brittany, France. 6 July 2022. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Billardiera longiflora is a climbing evergreen shrub, with slender, glabrous stems and narrow, lanceolate, entire leaves. Jardin exotique de Roscoff, France. 18 June 2010. Image Guillaume Mamdy.