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Prickly Currant-bush

Coprosma quadrifida

Photo by Leuba Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

Small (11 mm) glossy orange and pinkish red berries along the length of thin pendulous branches. Leaves of this plant were ovate.

Habitat:

Healesville is part of the Yarra Ranges. Can become very dry in summer - mostly open sclerophyll forests.

Notes:

This bush was spotted growing at the Healesville Sanctuary. Berries were in profusion at the time.

Reference Links:

PlantNET - FloraOnline

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Leuba Ridgway
Thanks for looking at this spotting and for your suggestion,Thorsten. It does look a little like Cotoneaster but differs in several ways - It is not a tree and the branches are softer and pendulous. Also the currants are glossy and delicious looking unlike Cotoneaster's that are tough and fibrous-looking. I have several Cotoneaster trees growing in our front and back yards and I am sure this one is not one of them. I think it is a native currant but you've prompted me to go and have a look again - so thanks !! and my Regards to you too.
Thorsten Müller
Hello Leuba, this plant remembers me to a Cotoneaster of the Rosaceae. Best regards from Germany, Thorsten

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PublishedJanuary 6, 2012

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