Sweet Appleberry

Billardiera versicolor is robust, shrubby twiner or scrambler with stems up to several metres long. The adult leaves are more or less sessile, narrowly egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic, 25–60 mm (0.98–2.36 in) long and 4–15 mm (0.16–0.59 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in sessile groups of about five to twelve, each flower on a pedicel 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in) long. The sepals are yellowish-green and 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long and the petals white, cream-coloured or pale yellow, 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in) long, with mauve-red blotches that spread as the flower ages. Flowering mainly occurs from September to December and the mature fruit is a green berry 13–15 mm (0.51–0.59 in) long containing many seeds.

This species of Billardiera mainly grows in mallee, but also in woodland and scrub, and occurs in western New South Wales, in the western half of Victoria and on the Eyre Peninsula and in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.

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