Coprosma intertexta

Drainage: Very Dry Well Drained Growth: Medium Height Range: 2 Site Conditions: Exposed Frost Tolerant Sandy Soil Windy Spread Range: 2 Sunlight: Full Sun Features: Attractive foliage Attractive to Birds Divaricating Evergreen Rare and Endangered Suitable for Revegetation Species Category: Herbaceous Tags: Birds, dry woodland, Poor soils, Rare Plants

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a South Island endemic shrub that is at risk and declining in the wild. Sparsely distributed, perhaps most common in the inland basins of Canterbury and Otago. Found in dry intermontane basins where it usually grows in grey scrub overlying old moraines, coarse alluvium, boulder piles and or rock outcrops. These dry woodland areas naturally exist in their own right, but are also remnants of past vegetation in the succession of broadleaf/podocarp forest for more stable areas. Where areas are not favourable to re-establish these podocarp forests, condition the soil with a mix of dry woodland plants like (but no...