Common name:
Native Currant, Prickly Currant Bush

Family name:
Rubiaceae

Botanical name:
Coprosma quadrifida

Flowering/fruiting season:
Abundant fruits late summer to autumn (Flood, 1980:96)

Location:
Mountain gullies and slopes in shaded habitats (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:336)

Native Currant

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Notes:

Language names:
maranggang : 'Currant bush' Ngarigo (Mathews, 1908:339)

Horticulture :
C. hirtella cultivated (Wrigley & Fagg, 1998), but 'berries not palatable' (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:336)

Similar species:

Use code:
FRT

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