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Stinkwood

Coprosma foetidissima

Stinkwood
Photo: Rudolph89, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
New Zealand, Antipodean Is. (Auckland I.)
Climate
temperate

About

Coprosma foetidissima, commonly known as stinkwood or hūpiro (Māori), is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae, native to mainland New Zealand as well as Stewart Island and the Auckland Islands. It grows as a shrub or small tree, and is found in coastal to sub-alpine forest and shrubland. Its distinctive characteristic is the unpleasant, rotten cabbage smell produced when its leaves are crushed.

Where it grows

C. foetidissima is endemic to New Zealand and found from the Coromandel Peninsula southwards to Stewart Island, and on the Auckland Islands. It grows in coastal to sub-alpine forest and shrubland.

Other Coprosma plants

Sand Coprosma · Coprosma acutifolia · Tree Coprosma · Thin Leaved Coprosma · Coprosma baueri · Coprosma chathamica · Coprosma cheesemanii · Coprosma ciliata · Coprosma cordicarpa · Mikimiki · Coprosma cuneata · Coprosma dodonaeifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Coprosma foetidissima by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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