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| Common
name: Melicytus drucei |
Botanical
name: Melicytus drucei
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| Family: Violaceae |
Maximum height: 2
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Where found:
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- Only known from the Ahukawakawa Swamp margins and Pouakai Range,
Egmont National Park.
- Unique, rare and threatened.
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| Description: |
- Divaricating (much branched) shrub which forms a compact crown
of rigid stems with spiny tips.
- Very small leaves have different juvenile and adult forms. Adult
leaves 7-12 x 2mm dark green above, paler beneath.
- Small cream - yellow flowers in October - December.
- Fruit a small (4-5mm) round berry, white with scattered purple
to black spots (March - May).
- Very palatable to hares, goats, possums
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PHOTO: C Ogle
PHOTO: C Ogle
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