CAT-00049
Millaa millaa vine
Elaeagnus triflora
Catalog fields
- Genus
- Elaeagnus
- Photo
- Not recorded
- Edible
- Yes
- layout
- single
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Published
- Yes
- Food group
- Fruit
- Latin name
- Elaeagnus triflora
- Fruit photo
- Not recorded
- Plant title
- Millaa millaa vine
- Source URLs
- https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Elaeagnus%20triflora | https://tuckerbush.com.au/millaa-millaa-elaeagnus-triflora/ Open source ↗ Open source 2 ↗
- Catalogue ID
- CAT-00049
- Mature width
- 2m
- Native range
- Extends from SE Asia to New Guinea and eastern Queensland.
- Plant family
- Elaeagnaceae
- Supplier SKU
- Not recorded
- Listing group
- Nursery-listed / regional edible
- Mature height
- 5m
- Native states
- QLD
- Original list
- No
- Research date
- 10/10/2026
- Research notes
- Profile enriched from botanical/nursery sources. Dimensions are unpruned regional estimates where available; missing measurements remain explicit. Seasons are regional guides and vary with climate, location, cultivar and plant maturity. Drought and cultivation guidance are qualitative garden inferences, not measured ratings.
- Evidence status
- Nursery food-use source; preparation detail review pending
- Fruiting season
- Late spring-early autumn reported by nursery.
- Background photo
- Not recorded
- Edible component
- Ripe fruit
- Flowering season
- Spring reported by nursery.
- Brief description
- Scrambling shrub or woody vine with silvery scales.
- Drought tolerance
- Moderate once established.
- Preparation notes
- Use ripe soft fruit pulp; remove the large seed.
- Flower description
- Small fragrant white flowers.
- General cultivation
- General guidance (qualitative): Promising in a warm sheltered site with support and drainage.
- Botanical description
- Woody climber or scandent shrub. Leaves alternate, persistent; petiole 5–15 mm long; lamina ovate to lanceolate, 3–13 cm long, 1–6 cm wide, rusty or silvery-lepidote below, glabrous and punctate above, base obtuse, apex acute or acuminate, secondary veins 5–8 pairs. Inflorescence axillary, 5–20 mm long, with flowers solitary or in 3-flowered cymes; peduncles to 2 mm long; pedicels 1–4 mm long, elongated in fruit to 8 mm long. Flowers 4–9 mm long, white to pale yellow; tube 3.5–6.5 mm long; lobes 4, ovate, 2–5 mm long; stellate-pubescent inside. Stamens 4, rarely 8; filaments slender, 0.3–1 mm long. Ovary 1–2 mm long, glabrous; style 2–4 mm long, glabrous. Fruit ellipsoidal, 10–17 mm long, red to dark brown.
- Other botanical names
- Not recorded
- Attracts birds and bugs
- Native bees and insects visit flowers; canopy shelters birds.
- Flora of Australia profile
- https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Elaeagnus%20triflora Open source ↗
- Fruit type and description
- Elongated red-speckled fleshy fruit with a large seed.
- Flora of Australia citation
- G.P. Guymer. Elaeagnus triflora. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Elaeagnus%20triflora (accessed 2026-10-14). Copyright Commonwealth of Australia; CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). HTML formatting removed; species-level context added where noted. Open source ↗ Open source 2 ↗
- Flora of Australia retrieved
- 14/10/2026