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Scientific Name : Coprosma quadrifida
Common Name : Prickly currant-bush
Height : 2 to 4 metres
Description : Dense, spiny, Dioecious shrub. Branchlets often ending in spines. Leaves numerous, small, Ovate, Opposite, 5 to 15 mm long. Flowers small and inconspicuous solitary, Terminal on short Axillary shoots, Petals 4, greenish, up to 5mm long. Male flowers with 4 Exserted Stamens. Female flowers with 2 reddish Stigmas 10 mm long. Fruit a translucent orange to red berry, almost spherical, 5 to 8 mm long, edible.
Habitat : Damp sites in Schlerophyll forests, often along creeks.
Distribution : Common in the Park, especially along Fosters Gully where it is an important host to the Butterfly Orchid - Sarcochilus australis and on hillsides above Billy Creek. Common in the South and East of Victoria. Also in Tasmania and New South Wales.
Flowering Season : September to October
Family : Rubiaceae
 
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Prickly currant-bush fruiting branch, in Fosters Gully.
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Prickly currant-bush flowering branch with male flowers, in Fosters Gully.