Coprosma linariifolia

Coprosma linariifolia, commonly called mikimiki or yellow-wood, is an evergreen shrub or small tree of the Rubiaceae family endemic to New Zealand, occurring in both North and South Islands from lowland to montane forest and shrubland. It typically grows 2 to 6 m high, with slender, divaricating to sub-erect branches and smooth pale grey to yellowish bark. The leaves are opposite, narrowly linear to linear-lanceolate, 15 to 35 mm long and only 1 to 3 mm wide, leathery, with revolute margins and a prominent midrib; interpetiolar stipules are small and triangular, bearing a single apical denticle. The species is dioecious; tiny greenish flowers are borne in axillary clusters, with male flowers having protruding anthers and female flowers two long style branches characteristic of the genus. The fruit is a small oblong-ellipsoid drupe ripening to translucent pale orange or pinkish, 5 to 7 mm long.