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Details:

Type:	Shrub
Growth Rate:	Medium
Mature Height:	0.3 m
Mature Width:	1 m
Site Condition:	Exposed, Frost Tolerant, Heavy Soil, Sandy Soil
Sun:	Full Sun, Part Shade
Drainage:	Dry, Moist
Frosts:	Hardy
Features:	Drought tolerant. Suitable for ground cover. Attractive to birds, insects and lizards. Foliage colour: Chocolate. Fruit colour: Pale Blue. Native. Suitable restoration species.

Coprosma brunnea is one of 45 species of Genus Coprosma that are found in New Zealand. A hardy wiry shrubby groundcover that is very tough and suitable for harsh conditions. Dense and bushy with attractive chocolate brown coloured foliage, grows tight and covers well. Ideal for trimming and mass planting on banks and swales, or sprawling down steep hill faces. Very small flowers develop from August to October among the branches and the female plant, in January, develop 5-6 mm long drupes which are a translucent sky-blue or are translucent white with blue flecks.

They also provide habitat for New Zealand’s declining lizard and gecko populations. As attractors of these small animals, they are a pioneer shrub in revegetation projects. Mingimingi provides a tough shelter, providing good food for native birds and lizards, as well as ground cover for these. Hardier the C. acerosa.

Coprosma species have small unisexual flowers that are borne on different plants (dioecious) and they have a fleshy fruit (drupe).

Habitat: Plains to subalpine. Coprosma brunnea grows in lowland to higher montane river beds up to 1500m in open grassland and rocky places on the South and Stewart Islands of New Zealand.

Flowering: Spring [August - December]
Fruiting:    Summer - Autumn [January - June]

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