| Scientific Name: | Gunnera manicata |
| Common Name: | gunnera, giant rhubarb |
| Family Name: | Gunneraceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 3 - 4m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Open |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Very coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Aquatic - ponds, Screening, Specimen plant, Waterside planting, Wetland - bogs |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Basal, Leathery, Prickly, Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Rugose, Orbicular, Ovate, Dentate, Pinnately lobed, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Panicle, Green, Pink, Red, Jul |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Green, Red, Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Clump-forming; leaves basal, most orbicular, 0.8-1.2(-2)m wide locally, very rough and heavily veined with thick, spiny petioles around a thick flower 'spike'. | |