New Zealand Map Series 1:
S83 888 544 (WGS84 -43.546218 172.504844)
New Zealand Map Series 260:
M35 7-- 4-- (WGS84 -43.501622 172.567069)
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
43°32´ S 172°30.3´ E (WGS84 -43.533333 172.505)
Habitat:
Volunteer plant in dry hard clay soil in roadside garden bed.
Notes:
One of a number of plants which appeared on the site from seed each year from volunteer plants. Plant 360cm tall - lower 160cm of trunk naked, but with leaf scars of shed leaves; upper 200cm of short zone of leaves, with approximately 170cm of panicle with panicle branches with flowers, each branch with a leaf-like bract subtending, buds pink, opening corolla rosy, corolla fading mauve (bluish). Sheet A - Stem colour in inflorescence purplish-brown, dark, with bract scar. Sheet B - Inflorescence branches with subtending bracts. Sheets C [and D] - Remnant leaves, between naked stem base and inflorescence. Sheets A - D.