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Coprosma repens 'Variegata'

Common name: luster - Plant mirror

The genus Coprosma composed of members of the family Rubiaceae and originated in New Zealand.

The Coprosma is a shrub of medium size and rapid growth, as it can reach an elevation of about 3 meters and a width of slightly more than half of its height.

development leads to a rounded shrub that is thickly covered with small leaves and thick, long, narrow, rounded finish, dark green with creamy yellow blend to a greater or lesser extent. The leaf margins are recurved and the intense brightness of the same causes the plant popularly known as the mirror.

Shown as an outstanding plant for gardens near the sea for good behavior with salty environments.
The brilliant as it is known in many places is a tough shrub, with a great capacity to adapt to different situations, but you love the sun so that it must be placed always good sunny sites, this will help turn enhance the tone variegated leaves, but can accommodate shady, especially in full green leaf variety.

At the start of the spring bloom occurs humble, because it really does not offer view of other species and passes almost unnoticed by the smallness of its size and hidden by the intense hues of the leaves, the flowers are arranged in peaks and are whitish-green color.

Just finished flowering fruit are a small, spherical, densely packed, they are initially green and then become red.
Its dense foliage makes it excellent for use as ground cover, hedge or shrub isolated, just as it admits that compositions made by cutting shapes. Similarly it can be grown in large containers.

should be watered regularly, moistening the soil deeply and wait before watering nu evo to the substrate is dry, we should not let the water is stagnant.
This is a plant that has male sexual organs in a different foot than female (dioecious), so you need to have male and female plants for fruit.

not have a special preference for the floor, just that it is fertile and well drained. When flowering is complete you may have an pruning more compact as a shock.
is multiplied by seed.