A shrub with diverging branches, small narrow leaves, and white star-shaped flowers. It grows in salt marshes and boulder beachers. Plagianthus divaricatus.
Mākaka
Marsh ribbonwood, Plagianthus divericatus
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[Eagle, Audrey Lily], 1926?- :Plagianthus divaricatus; Tauranga, 1.10.68. Seeds March. ...
Date: 1968 - 1988
From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]
Reference: A-437-145
Description: Shows leaves, seeds and flowers of a marsh ribbonwood or makaka. Artist's list: Male flowers 1.10.68 from Katikati, coll. Peggie Jenner. Female flowers from a cult. plant. Carpels from Raglan, coll. A Eagle Appears on page 287 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - October 1968 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 260 x 210 mm.
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Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771: Plagianthus divaricatus. Forster. [Plagianthus divaricatu...
Date: [ca 1894-1899]
From: British Museum (Natural History): Botanical plates from Banks' Florilegium and the second voyage of James Cook
By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771
Reference: B-026-428
Description: Branch of makaka showing leaves, flowers and capsulae. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - Allan. p 337-8. "A somewhat polymorphic sp. as yet not adequately studied". P. divaricatus J.R. et G. Forst. Char. Gen. Pl. 1776. A salt-swampland shrub, N., s., Stewart & Chatham Is. S.N. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Copperplate engraving, 462 x 295 mm, on wove paper, 500 x 377 mm.