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| Common
name: Lacebark, houhere |
Botanical
name: Hoheria sexstylosa |
| Family: Malvaceae
(Mallow family) |
Maximum height: 8
metres |
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| Where found: |
- Sea level to 450m
- Coastal and lowland forests, forest margins, stream sides and
riverbanks.
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| Description: |
- An erect, much-branching canopy tree. Foliage tends to droop.
- Deeply toothed leaves, 15cm long by 5cm wide, dark green in
colour with undersides paler green. Lance shaped, arranged alternately.
Semi-deciduous and sometimes bare in late winter. Juvenile leaves
up to 15mm long but not lance shaped.
- White, sweet-scented flowers up to 2cm wide in autumn.
- Fruits contain seven seeds. Propagation by seed which ripens
in late autumn.
- Tolerance: frost-moderate, wind-moderate, salt-moderate, drought-moderate,
waterlogging-moderate. Environmental
Tolerances - key
- Leaves palatable to possums
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PHOTO: Peter Winter
PHOTO: Barry Hartley
PHOTO: Barry Hartley
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