Pohuehue - featured plant
Muehlenbeckia growing next to a Beach Care access way at Whiritoa Beach (Photo John Barren)Pohuehue (Muehlenbeckia complexa)
Pohuehue is a low growing wiry vine that scrambles over rocks, dunes and other plants forming dense mats in the back dune area helping with dune stabilisation. Its white fleshy fruits provide food for geckos and skinks and the leaves and stem are food for other creatures such as Rauparaha copper butterflies a small brown native moth and a native mite.
Posted: 7 May 2012 in the Flora & Fauna category