Muehlenbeckia axillaris Pohuehue

Drainage: Damp Very Dry Well Drained Growth: Medium Height Range: 0.3 Site Conditions: Coastal Exposed Frost Tolerant Heavy Soil Loamy Soil Sandy Soil Windy Spread Range: 1 Sunlight: Full Sun Partial Shade Features: Attractive foliage Attractive to insects Evergreen Suitable for Revegetation Species Category: Groundcover Tags: Birds, Lizards

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Muehlenbeckia axillaris is a dense fast-growing groundcover or climber with small round shiny leaves, wiry stems, forms an attractive mat. Provides habitat for native copper butterflies. Birds and geckos love the fruit. Tolerant of wind a drought.

Often found in dry woodland plant communities that include but are not limited to Olearia paniculata , Pittosporum tenuifolium, Discaria toumatou, Melicytus alpinus, and Poa cita.

For more information on plant communities, we recommend DOC’s publication Native Plant Communities of the Canterbury Plains. Additional information Drainage

Damp, Very Dry, Well Draine...