Coprosma repens
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'Coprosma repens' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
C. repens is prostrate only in exposed localities, being normally a large shrub or even a tree, with thick, glossy, broad-elliptic to oblong-obovate leaves. It is best known for its two old variegated forms ‘Picturata’, in which the leaves have a central patch of creamy yellow or yellowish green, and ‘Variegata’, in which they are margined with creamy yellow. ‘Coppershine’ is one of several hybrids of C. repens raised by W. B. Brockie in the Otari Botanic Garden, New Zealand (L. J. Metcalf, Cultivation of N.Z. Trees and Shrubs, p. 73 (1972)).
Better known under the erroneous name C. baueri (the true species C. baueri Endl. is a native of Norfolk Island and probably not in cultivation.)