5 June: Top 10 Plants of the Week

1 - Coprosma grandifolia. Rubiaceae. Raurekau. Large leaved coprosma, plant can grow up to 6m.

2 - Coprosma robusta. Rubiaceae. Karamu. Leathery leaves with rounded tips. The stipules have black tips.

3 - Sophora molloyi.  Fabaceae. Kowhai. 'Dragons Gold'. Tui's love the flowers. 

4 - Coprosma repens. Smaller waxi leaves.

5 - Blechnum nuovo zealandi. Leaflets slight joined at stem. Leaf larger at base and narrower at tip.

6 - Blechnum discolour. Leaflets fuller separated at the stem, leaf shape thin at base and tip, wider in the middle.

7 - Fuschia excorticarta. Flower, green with purple center.

7 - Fuschia excorticarta. Trunk with peeling orangey bark

8 - Metrosiderous robusta - Northern rata

9 - Myrsine Australis - Red Matipo

10 - Pittosporum tenuifolium - Black Matipo