Sitting on the hand of a six-year old boy (it was big but not quite as big as it looks).
Coprosma propinqua × C. robusta. Cultivated, alleyway near Christchurch Rudolf Steiner School, Canterbury. Photos: © Murray Dawson
Landcare Research is an area that has been planted with many native and exotic plant species. This species was growing wild. Plot C5A
Picking that this plant is a hybrid.
Wild hybrid coprosma.
A Coprosma, guessing it is foetidissima.....
Looks like C. robusta as one parent, possible C. propinqua as the other - both present in the area. Leaves up to about 3cm long. One shrub on roadside bank at start of private track.
John Staniland identified this as a Hybrid Coprosma of unknown parentage. I have grown similar comprosmas from seedling that come up in the garden which the local council officer has also suggested where hybrids.