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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

Available Images View At 50% | View At 100% Prickly currant-bush fruiting branch, in Fosters Gully. View At 50% | View At 100% Prickly currant-bush flowering branch with male flowers, in Fosters Gully.