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4" Pot
Very cute little groundcover Gunnera literally overshadowed by its more familiar larger kin. This avoids the inevitable comparison by growing in New Zealand rather than South America where the big ones hold court. Loves a rich moist soil where it will carpet freely with dense overlapping rounded lightly coppery leaves. Little flower spikes with white fruit. This species and other Gunnera species have been shown to have a nitrogen fixing blue-green algae living inside them which provides the Gunnera with an in-house source of fertilizer. Protect if very cold.