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Melicytus alpinus
Melicytus alpinus, the porcupine shrub, is a small, slow-growing, spiny-looking shrub from the violet family, endemic to New Zealand's coastal and alpine areas. It is a hardy, sparse plant grown mainly in rock gardens or restoration plantings, and it needs full sun and very good drainage.
Melicytus alpinus, the mahoe porcupine shrub, is a small shrub of the family Violaceae endemic to New Zealand.
Melicytus alpinus is endemic to New Zealand. There, it can be found in both the North and South Islands in coastal and/or dry alpine areas. It is most common in the South Island high country.
Melicytus angustifolius · Thick Leaved Porcupine Plant · Tree Violet · Melicytus flexuosus · Narrow Leaved Māhoe · Melicytus latifolius · Large Leaved Māhoe · Melicytus novae-zelandiae subsp. centurionis · Coastal Mahoe · Cook Strait Māhoe · Mahoe · Whitey Wood
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melicytus alpinus 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.
