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Elaeagnus triflora

Elaeagnus triflora, commonly known as millaa millaa vine, is a scrambling shrub the family Elaeagnaceae. Its native range is Malesia and Papuasia, to Taiwan in the north and the Australian state of Queensland in the south.

Description

Elaeagnus triflora is a shrub or vine with a stem diameter of up to . The leaves are simple and can grow to long and wide. They are green and above and the underside is covered with minute scales which give them a metallic silver or coppery colour. They have five to eight lateral veins either side of the midrib.

Flowers are either solitary or in groups of three on a raceme, and they occur in the . They are fragrant and measure up to about long, with four pale yellow, pointed petals.

The fruit is red, ellipsoidal and about long, and contains a single seed about long and wide. It is edible.

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