Gaultheria antipoda
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Gaultheria antipoda' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Gaultheria adenothrix
- Gaultheria appressa
- Gaultheria borneensis
- Gaultheria codonantha
- Gaultheria colensoi
- Gaultheria crassa
- Gaultheria cuneata
- Gaultheria depressa
- Gaultheria eriophylla
- Gaultheria forrestii
- Gaultheria fragrantissima
- Gaultheria griffithiana
- Gaultheria hirtiflora
- Gaultheria hispida
- Gaultheria hispidula
- Gaultheria hookeri
- Gaultheria humifusa
- Gaultheria insana
- Gaultheria leucocarpa
- Gaultheria macrostigma
- Gaultheria marticorenae
- Gaultheria miqueliana
- Gaultheria mucronata
- Gaultheria myrsinoides
- Gaultheria nummularioides
- Gaultheria oppositifolia
- Gaultheria ovatifolia
- Gaultheria parvula
- Gaultheria procumbens
- Gaultheria pumila
- Gaultheria pyroloides
- Gaultheria rupestris
- Gaultheria semi-infera
- Gaultheria shallon
- Gaultheria sinensis
- Gaultheria stapfiana
- Gaultheria subcorymbosa
- Gaultheria tasmanica
- Gaultheria tetramera
- Gaultheria thymifolia
- Gaultheria trichophylla
- Gaultheria wardii
- Gaultheria × wisleyensis
An evergreen erect shrub 2 to 4 ft high; young shoots usually bristly and downy. Leaves oval, orbicular or obovate, toothed, 1⁄3 to 2⁄3 in. long, thick and leathery, more or less undulate, strongly veined, glabrous, apple-green; stalk very short, bristly. Flowers solitary in the terminal leaf-axils. Corolla white, 1⁄8 in. long, cylindrical, borne on a downy flower-stalk about as long as itself. Calyx-lobes ovate-oblong, pointed, usually enlarging at the fruiting stage and becoming fleshy and enclosing the seed-vessel, the whole a white or red berry-like fruit about 1⁄2 in. across.
Native of New Zealand in the North and South Islands from sea-level to 4,000 ft altitude; introduced in 1820. It is a variable shrub, especially in habit and size of leaf; the latter, on young plants raised from seed, remain for some years about 1⁄4 in. or less in length. Sometimes the upper leaves of the flower-bearing shoots are much reduced, so that the inflorescence becomes racemose at the top. It is perhaps the hardiest of the New Zealand gaultherias.