Common name: Native Currant, Prickly Currant Bush Family name: Rubiaceae Botanical name: Coprosma quadrifida Flowering/fruiting season: Abundant fruits late summer to autumn (Flood, 1980:96) Location: Mountain gullies and slopes in shaded habitats (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:336)

Use:

• Food
• Pea-sized succulent fruit was eaten raw (Flood, 1980:96)

Notes:

• Shrub to 3m. high.
• Prickly Currant Bush - shiny red fruits 7mm long 5mm across; sweet and juicy with one or two seeds large enough to have to be spat out; days of Tasmanian settlement used to make puddings (Cribb & Cribb, 1987:20)

Language names:
maranggang : 'Currant bush' Ngarigo (Mathews, 1908:339)

Horticulture :
C. hirtella cultivated (Wrigley & Fagg, 1998), but 'berries not palatable' (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:336)

Similar species:

Use code:
FRT

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