Family Index

Scientific Name

Pseudopanax gunnii

Family Name

ARALIACEAE

Common Name

Native Ivy-bush

Status

Height

50-150cm

Flowers

Numerous small flowers with 5 greenish-white petals, producing succulent, purplish-black fruit. Fruit about 5mm long and 8mm wide.

Fruit

Berries or drupes

Form

Sparsely branched shrub with slender branches covered by coarse hairs. Stalked leaves divided into 3-7 leaflets, 2-8cm long.

Municipalities

Burnie; Derwent Valley; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Huon Valley; Kentish; West Coast

Communities

Habitat Notes

Occasional in temperate rainforest in the west and south-west.

Site Tolerance

Frost Tolerance

Soil Tolerance

General Notes

Suitable below powerlines.

Propagation Details

Propagation Calendar

Flowering Months

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Oct

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Dec

Seed Collecting Months

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Oct

Nov

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Sowing Months

Jan

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Aug

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Oct

Nov

Dec

Cutting Months

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Oct

Nov

Dec

Seed Information

Seed Collection

2 seeds per fruit, enclosed in the hard inner layer of the fruit wall.

Seed Treatment Method

Seed Storage Life

Viable Seeds Per Gram

Seed Treatment Notes

Germination Time

Suitable for Direct Seeding

Cuttings

Expected Time to Take Root

Expected Time to Plant Out

Propagation by Division N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.

Cutting Notes