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Archeria racemosa is an erect shrub in the heather family (Ericaceae), endemic to northern New Zealand, with small urn-shaped white to pink flowers in terminal racemes. It is a wild native shrub of forest and scrub rather than a common garden plant, so care notes below are general guidance for heath-family shrubs.
Archeria racemosa is a species of shrub in the family Ericaceae.
A. racemosa currently occupies a rather restricted range in northern New Zealand (where it is endemic), being found scattered throughout Little Barrier Island, Great Barrier Island, the Coromandel Peninsula, and from the Bay of Plenty across to East Cape.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Archeria racemosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
