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Mackaya bella

Kowhai Park, Whanganui. Dec 2011.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Dehisced fruit. Kowhai Park, Whanganui. Aug 2011.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

Asystasia, Forest bell bush

Biostatus

Exotic

Conservation status

Not applicable

Structural class

Trees & Shrubs - Dicotyledons

Flower colours

Violet/Purple, White

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Mackaya

Family

Acanthaceae

Authority

Mackaya bella Harv.

Endemic family

Ecology

Year naturalised

1991

Reason for introduction

Horticultural.

Life cycle and dispersal

In narrow almost woody capsules seeeds spread through wind dispersal, water and gravity, reproduction also through vegetative spread, by layering and detachment

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