Exotic

Uncertain

New Zealand

Political Region

Dawson, M.; Ford, K. (2012)

“Although specimens under the name A. africanus are vouchered for New Zealand, we are not certain that the bona fide species is present in this country. Snoeijer (2004) states that A. africanus is very difficult to grow and almost all selections associated with it are in fact cultivars, hybrids or misidentified A. praecox. On the other hand, Snoeijer (2004) may have written this from a European (UK and The Netherlands) cold-climate perspective whereas the two New Zealand herbarium specimens named as A. africanus are from warm-temperate regions (AK 149332, locally well-established at a site in Kawerua, near Waipoua State Forest; AK 228173, cultivated at Auckland Botanic Gardens).”