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Coprosma Rugosa
''Coprosma rugosa'', also known as the needle-leaved mountain coprosma, is a shrub in the Coffea, coffee family, Rubiaceae, that is native to New Zealand. It is found in grasslands and forest margins up to the subalpine zone. ''C. rugosa'' bears small purple-white Berry, berries in autumn, the seed of which is widely Seed dispersal, dispersed by birds. It is considered a very hardy shrub and is suitable for Hedge, hedging. References *''The Native Trees of New Zealand'', John Salmon (entomologist), J. T. Salmon, Heinemann Reed, Auckland, 1990, p. 293 {{Taxonbar, from=Q5168975 Coprosma, rugosa Plants described in 1906 Flora of New Zealand Divaricating plants Taxa named by Thomas Frederic Cheeseman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Frederic Cheeseman
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman (8 June 184515 October 1923) was a New Zealand botanist. He was also a naturalist who had wide-ranging interests, such that he even described a few species of sea slugs (marine gastropod molluscs). Biography Cheeseman was born at Hull, in Yorkshire on 8 June 1845, the eldest of five children. He came to New Zealand at the age of eight with his parents on the ''Artemesia'', arriving in Auckland on 4 April 1854. He was educated at Parnell Grammar School and then at St John's College, Auckland. His father, the Rev. Thomas Cheeseman, had been a member of the old Auckland Provincial Council. Cheeseman started studying the flora of New Zealand, and in 1872 he published an accurate and comprehensive account of the plant life of the Waitākere Ranges. In 1874, he was appointed Secretary of the Auckland Institute and Curator of the Auckland Museum, which had only recently been founded. For the first three decades, Cheeseman was the only staff member who w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
