Gaultheria mucronata Hook. & Arn.

A shrub. It grows 60-120 cm high. The stems are wiry. They form a thicket. It develops suckers. The leaves are glossy and deep green. They are 12 mm long and have spiny tips. The flowers are white and urn-shaped but often tinged with pink. The flowers are in clusters and hang down. Male and female flowers are usually borne on separate plants. The fruit are marble-like. The fruit can be white, pink, purplish or red. They are 6-9 mm across.

Open wet Nothfagus and Drimys forest, dominant or co-dominant with Chiliotrichum in shrub communities fringing forests above high water mark and in transition to swamps and bogs from sea level to 700m

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions, seedlings or suckers. Seeds needs stratification.