Billardiera versicolor

Billardiera versicolor, commonly known as pale appleberry or sweet appleberry, is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a robust, shrubby twiner or scrambler that has mostly narrowly elliptic or narrowly egg-shaped leaves and white, cream-coloured or pale yellow flowers with mauve-red blotches that spread as the flowers age.

Description
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 long and 4–15 mm wide. The flowers are arranged in sessile groups of about five to twelve, each flower on a pedicel 10–12 mm long. The sepals are yellowish-green and 2–3 mm long and the petals white, cream-coloured or pale yellow, 10–12 mm 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 long containing many seeds.

Taxonomy and naming
Billardiera versicolor was first formally described in 1857 by Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt in the journal Linnaea from an unpublished description by Ferdinand von Mueller. The specific epithet (versicolor) means "variously coloured" or "changing colour".

Distribution and habitat
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.