Acaena

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Acaena novae-zelandiae foliage and various fruiting stages


Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation
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Scientific Names

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Read about Acaena in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Acaena (from Greek word signifying thorn). Rosaceae. New Zealand Bur. Trailing, more or less evergreen plants used in rockwork and as ground cover under trees and between other plants.

About 40 species of sub-shrubs or herbs of the southern hemisphere, allied to Agrimonia and Sanguisorba: lvs. unequally pinnate, alternate, the lfts. toothed or cut: fls. small, crowded in erect terminal spikes or heads; petals none; calyx 5-7-lobed, usually armed with spines; stamens 1-10, or even more: fr. an achene, 1 or 2 being enclosed in the hardened calyx.

Acaenas are little grown in this country, but are prized in England as groundwork for dwarf spring-flowering bulbs, as trilliums; also useful in protecting native orchids and bog plants.CH


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Cultivation

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Propagation

Propagation is by cuttings, divisions and seeds.CH

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Species

Selected specieswp
  • Acaena adscendens
  • Acaena anserinifolia
  • Acaena argentea
  • Acaena buchananii
  • Acaena caesiiglauca
  • Acaena exigua - Liliwai
  • Acaena fissistipula
  • Acaena glabra
  • Acaena inermis
  • Acaena laevigata
  • Acaena lucida
  • Acaena magellanica
  • Acaena microphylla
  • Acaena myriophylla
  • Acaena novae-zelandiae - bidibid
  • Acaena ovalifolia
  • Acaena ovina
  • Acaena pallida - Sand bidibid
  • Acaena pinnatifida - Sheepburr
  • Acaena platyacantha
  • Acaena pumila
  • Acaena saccaticupula
  • Acaena sanguisorbae
  • Acaena sericea
  • Acaena splendens
  • Acaena trifida

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