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Ngaio
| Common
name: Ngaio |
Botanical
name: Myoporum laetum |
| Family: Myoporaceae |
Maximum height: 10
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| Description: |
- Tree with stout, spreading branches, trunk up to 300 mm in diameter,
plants often low growing and dome shaped in exposed coastal places
- Fleshy bright green glossy leaves (40-100 mm x 10-30 mm) are
dotted with glands, some of the leaves have serrated margins
- Bisexual flowers 10-15 mm grow in clusters of 2 to 6, the white
petals have purple dots on them
- Pale to dark reddish berries are up to 9mm long
- Rough brown wrinkled bark
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PHOTO: Colin Ogle

PHOTO: Peter Winter
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