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Coprosma rhamnoides

Synonyms: Coprosma concinna; Coprosma divaricata (heterotypic); Coprosma heterophylla; Coprosma orbiculata

Wikipedia Abstract

Coprosma rhamnoides, also known as twiggy coprosma or red-currant coprosma is an endemic shrub in New Zealand. It forms a small shrub up to 2 m tall. The leaves are very small, simple and variable in shape. The inconspicuous flowers are unisexual and believed to be wind pollinated. The fruit are small and red berry-like borne on the female bushes.It is widespread in occurrence and can be the dominant small leaved divaricating shrub in some locations
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Dioecious
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Pollinators [1]  Wind
Structure [1]  Shrub
Usage [1]  A yellow dye is obtained from the wood, it does not require a mordant;
Height [1]  6.56 feet (2 m)
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Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ileostylus micranthus (Mistletoe)[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
2New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
4FLESHY FRUITS OF INDIGENOUS AND ADVENTIVE PLANTS IN THE DIET OF BIRDS IN FOREST REMNANTS, NELSON, NEW ZEALAND, PETER A. WILLIAMS and BRIAN J. KARL, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1996) 20(2): 127-145
5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0