Scientific Name: Coprosma moorei

Common Name: blue matcurrant

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Rubiaceae

Form Description: Small prostrate shrub with much-branched stems, rooting at the nodes.

Flowers: Solitary, terminal on short branches, light yellowish-green, about 0.6cm across.

Fruit: Drupe – spherical, blue.

Municipality
Central HighlandsDerwent ValleyDorsetKentishMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsWest Coast
Plant Communities
Alpine and Sub-alpine VegetationHeath
Habitat Notes

Occasional in wet heath and bolster heath above 300m. Sometimes growing in sphagnum moss.

Site Tolerance

Exposed, Moist, Windy

Soil Tolerance

Fertile, Nutrient-poor, Well-drained

Frost Tolerance

Hardy

General Notes

Useful as a rockery or container plant in cool positions. Resistant to Phytophthora cinnamomi.

Propagation Calendar

  • Flowering Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Seed Collecting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Sowing Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Cutting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Propagation Method
Seed, Cuttings, Division

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Harvest by hand and place into bags, or knock fruit onto groundsheets.

Seed Treatment Method

Fermentation Collect fleshy fruits in a plastic bag, mash up and allowed to ferment to replicate digestion by a bird.

Seed Treatment Notes

Place fruits into plastic bags and allow to ferment for several weeks. Remove the flesh from the fruit and sow seed soon after collection. Do not allow seed to dry out.

Cutting & Division Information

Can be propagated from cuttings.