Cyathodes parviflora
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Pink mountain berry
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Summary
Cyathodes parviflora is an evergreen shrub growing slowly to 1 m with persistent foliage and hermaphrodite flowers. It adapts to sandy, loamy, and clay soils requiring good drainage and mildly acidic to neutral pH. The plant tolerates semi-shade (light woodland) and prefers moist soil.
Description
Cyathodes parviflora is an evergreen shrub growing slowly to 1 m with persistent foliage and hermaphrodite flowers. It adapts to sandy, loamy, and clay soils requiring good drainage and mildly acidic to neutral pH. The plant tolerates semi-shade (light woodland) and prefers moist soil.
Edible Uses
The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. It is pleasantly sweet, juicy, and lemony in flavor, though it contains a large seed. The fruit is about 5mm wide.
Traditional Uses
The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked.
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Medicinal Uses
None known
Distribution
It is a temperate plant. It is a hardy plant. It needs well-drained soil. It can grow in light shade. It requires a humus rich soil and frequent rain. It can grow from sea level to 1,200 m above sea level.
Where It Grows
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania,
Propagation
Surface-sow in ericaceous soil in February or March in a cold frame, without excluding light. Germination can occur within one to two months at 18°C but often takes three to five years. Scarification reduces germination time, and two or three cycles of four to six weeks of cold stratification alternated with four weeks of warm stratification can help; sowing seed as soon as it is ripe may also be beneficial. Seedlings are very slow to form roots and must be potted up with great care. Grow on in the greenhouse for at least two years before planting out in late spring or early summer. Cuttings of half-ripe wood can be taken in July or August in a frame, though neither easy nor reliable. Air layering is another option.
Other Uses
The wood is tough and hard.
Production
It grows slowly.
Notes
There are about 15 Cyathodes species. An unresolved name in The Plant List.
Synonyms
References (2)
- Bodkin, F., 1991, Encyclopedia Botanica. Cornstalk publishing, p 311
- Plants for a Future database, The Field, Penpol, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, PL22 0NG, UK. http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/
