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.
The fruit is edible.