Sweet apple- berry fruit - Billardiera cymosa

The sweet apple berry is a small, wiry, light climbing plant with narrow to oblong pointed leaves and attractive cream to pink, to mauve to bluish white tubular flowers with flared tips borne in clusters. The fruits are green to blackish , sometimes reddish, and when mature are known to be edible. As a bush food species it is gaining popularity, and as a native species is quite easy to propagate. It has an aniseed like flavour, although over ripe fruit are said to be sweet. Indigenous use of this bush tucker was once the fruit were ripe and had fallen to the ground.