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Story: Conifer–broadleaf forests

Tawa forest

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Tawa forest

This is a remnant of pre-European conifer–broadleaf forest at Ōtari–Wilton’s Bush in Wellington city. Rimu and northern rātā emerge above a canopy of tawa.

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John Dawson, Conifer–broadleaf forests – Central and southern forests, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/11667/tawa-forest (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by John Dawson, published 1 March 2009.