Cyathodes juniperina
Pink Mountain Berry
Pink Mountain Berry
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Common name: Pink Mountain Berry
Common names in New Zealand include prickly heath and prickly mingimingi
In Australia, the subspecies parvifolia (syn. Cyathodes parviflora) is known as pink mountain berry
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Native to New Zealand and the Australian states of Tasmania and Victoria
An example occurrence of L. juniperina is in the red and silver beech forests admixed with rimu and miro podocarps on northern South Island, New Zealand; associate understory species in this South Island forest include Blechnum discolor
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The plant's fruit is edible, raw or cooked
Plants grow best in areas with moderate winters and cool moist summers
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Three subspecies are recognised as follows:
Leptecophylla juniperina (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) C.M.Weiller subsp. juniperina (New Zealand and Tasmania
Leptecophylla juniperina subsp. oxycedrus (Labill.) C.M.Weiller (Tasmania and Victoria)
Leptecophylla juniperina subsp. parvifolia (R.Br.) C.M.Weiller (Tasmania)
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