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Gaultheria depressa
Mountain snowberry is a small, ground-hugging evergreen shrub from alpine rocky areas of Tasmania and New Zealand, grown mainly in rockeries. It needs well-drained, acidic soil and some shade to do well.
Gaultheria depressa, commonly known as the mountain snowberry or alpine wax berry, is a small ground-hugging shrub of the heath family Ericaceae native to rocky alpine areas of Tasmania, Australia, and New Zealand.
In New Zealand, the prostrate habit and dependent fruit shielded by foliage from above suggest it is suited for dispersal by lizards. Furthermore, the ground weta species (Zealandosandrus maculifrons) has been recorded eating the fruit.
Early settlers in the southern district of Otago region of New Zealand used to make snowberry pies out of the Gaultheria depressa fruit.
Gaultheria puradyatmikae · Wintergreen · Gaultheria adenothrix · Bush Snowberry · Wax Berry · Scarlet Snowberry · Gaultheria cuneata · Gaultheria floribunda · Gaultheria fragrantissima · Copperleaf Snowberry · Creeping snowberry · Alpine spicywintergreen
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gaultheria depressa 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.
