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Story: Ferns and lycophytes

Ponga house

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Ponga house

The walls of this house on the Chatham Islands, built about 1890, were constructed from ponga or tree-fern trunks.

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Patrick Brownsey, Ferns and lycophytes – Ferns in New Zealand culture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10909/ponga-house (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Patrick Brownsey, published 1 March 2009.