MUEHLENBECKIA ASTONII

7cm     $2.55

Rare brownish shrub with tangled zig-zagging branches bearing small heart shaped leaves and white fruit with a black seed on top. Twigs orange. Leaves 2-15mm wide, with large dent at tip, on a 3-10mm long often brown grooved stalk, in clusters. Flowers small. Found from coastlands to lowlands where there is high fertility soils .Endemic to New Zealand.