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Coprosma rotundifolia

Synonyms: Coprosma rufescens

Wikipedia Abstract

Coprosma rotundifolia, is a native forest shrub of New Zealand. It is found on the North, South and Stewart Islands, usually in forest close to a watercourse. C. rotundifolia can grow up to 5 metres tall with divaricating branches. Veins are evident on both sides of leaves, and the shrub produces red or white fruit.
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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]  7.872 feet (2.4 m)
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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 3FLESHY 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
♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6O'Donnell, Colin F J and Dilks, Peter J, Foods and Foraging of Forest Birds in Temperate Rainforest, South. Westland, New Zealand, NZ J Ecology 18(2) (1994) pp. 87-107
♦ 7Brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) diet in a north Westland mixed-beech (Nothofagus) forest, C. Hamish Cochrane, David A. Norton, Craig J. Miller and Robert B. Allen, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (2003) 27(1): 61-65
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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