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Serendipitous supply
When the Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust wanted to give a gift of plants, locally sourced from Rarangi Beach, east of Blenheim, they came to Oratia. Not only could we provide an eco-sourced species, it was also a plant which had since disappeared from the region!

This is the Trust's story.

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Rumex flexuosus
Height: 0.5m;  Spread: 0.5m
Runa (Herb)
An interesting endemic member of the Dock family, this sprawling plant has bronze foliage and wiry 'flexuous' flower and seed stalks. Generally confined to seasonally boggy and inundated sites, it will tolerate dry periods.
» Click here for our Rumex article published in The Fringe, June 2013 ...
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