Sweet Appleberry Vine

Botanical Name: Billardiera cymosa
Common Names: Sweet Appleberry

Sweet Appleberry is a hardy native climber and groundcover that grows naturally in coastal and inland Australia. It produces sweet, edible green-to-purplish berries with a pleasant fruit flavour often compared to stewed apples or kiwi fruit. It is an excellent choice for gardens where you want an attractive evergreen climber that double-duties as a bush food plant.

Features:

Ideal prune height range: 1-2m trellis or groundcover spread

pH growing conditions: 5.5 to 7.0

Shade or full sun: Prefers full sun to light shade

Minimum pot year 5: 30L pot or open ground

Time to fruit age: 2-3 years from tubestock

This Australian native is very low-maintenance once established, tolerating dry conditions, sandy soils, and coastal exposure. It features narrow dark green leaves and displays attractive bell-shaped violet to blue-purple flowers in spring, followed by juicy edible berries in summer. It can be trained up a trellis, allowed to scramble through shrubs, or used as a dense weed-suppressing groundcover.

Interesting Notes:
The berries were traditionally eaten raw or cooked by Indigenous Australians. They turn soft and slightly translucent when fully ripe and ready to pick.

An ideal addition to native bush food collections, habitat gardens, and waterwise landscapes.

Limited stock. Pickup from Parkwood, WA. Delivery to Perth Metro only.

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