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Pseudopanax ferox
Also called Fierce lancewood
Toothed lancewood (Pseudopanax ferox) is a small New Zealand tree in the ivy family whose young plants have sharply toothed, fierce-looking leaves, and it grows to about 6 m as an adult. Give it good light and moisture to grow it well.
Pseudopanax ferox, commonly known as toothed lancewood or horoeka, is a small heteroblastic tree which belongs to the family Araliaceae. It is endemic to New Zealand, and is similar to the more common lancewood, Pseudopanax crassifolius, but with more prominently tooth-shaped leaves. The tree is sometimes called fierce lancewood, in reference to its fierce-looking saw-tooth shaped juvenile leaves.
It has a patchy distribution in the North Island. It is more widespread in the South Island, mainly east of the Main Divide, from the Marlborough Sounds to Southland. Current native populations are scarce and consist of small, isolated groups, mainly due to historical habitat loss.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pseudopanax ferox 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.
