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Acaena

            A June day at Kew Gardens ...

Acaena is a genus of about 100 species of mainly evergreen, creeping herbaceous perennial plants and subshrubs in the family Rosaceae, native mainly to the Southern Hemisphere, notably New Zealand, Australia and South America, but with a few species extending into the Northern Hemisphere.

Several Acaena species in New Zealand are known by the common name bidibid. The word is written variously bidi-bidi, biddy-biddy, biddi-biddi, biddi-bid and a number of other variations. These names are the English rendition of the original Māori name of piripiri. The plant is also called the New Zealand burr.

The species Acaena microphylla has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

The fruit is a dense ball of many seeds. In many (but not all) species the seeds bear a barbed arrowhead point, the seedhead forming a burr which attaches itself to animal fur or feathers for dispersal.

Some species have been introduced accidentally to other areas, attached to sheep's wool, and have become invasive species. A. novae-zelandiae, one of the bidibids from New Zealand, is the most commonly encountered species in the United Kingdom, where it is often abundant on coastal sand dunes, crowding out native vegetation and creating an often painful nuisance with the barbed burrs.

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / London / Kew (show map)

Taken on: June 14, 2014

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Camera: Canon PowerShot SX200 IS, f/4.0, 1/160 sec, 8.3mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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Focal Length:	8.3mm
ISO:	100
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