Panakenake (Lobelia angulata)
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Genus: Lobelia
Species: Lobelia angulata Has been reclassified was Pratia angulata
Common name: Panakenake, Pratia angulata
Panakenake is a is fast growing wide spreading groundcover, found throughout New Zealand from sea level to1300m. It prefers a damp situations. It has small lush rounded leaves and masses of white flowers from spring onwards. Its flowers are 5 merous with the petals united into an upper lipped three lobe and lower lipped two-lobe corolla that is split to its base. In Autumn it produces reddish purple berries.
Photographed at Te Kainga Marire Gardens at Spencer Place.
Berries January
Winter berries
Leaves of Panakenake
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