Flowering/fruiting season: Fruits spring-summer (Flood, 1980:95)
Location: Dry sclerophyll forest (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:192)
Use:
- Food
- Summer fruits (Wreck Bay Community & Renwick, 2000:44)
- Pleasant, slightly acid berries were eaten raw (Flood, 1980:95)
- '… another favourite … sometimes picked from the plant and roasted briefly before eating. It is usual to wait until they have ripened to a pale opaque brown. Often they are found on the ground below the plant. '(Wreck Bay Community & Renwick, 2000:44)
Notes:
- 'A small climber with hanging yellow-green bell-shaped flowers, followed by oval, fuzzy fruits. The fruit is green with a red tinge and contains many black seeds. When soft enough to eat they fall from the branches.' (Zola & Gott, 1992:49)
- '... flavour akin to dried apples.' (Cribb & Cribb, 1987:70)
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