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Story: Conifer–broadleaf forests

Mountain cedar timberline

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Mountain cedar timberline

Mountain cedar (Libocedrus bidwillii) form a stunted low forest at the boundary between forest and alpine grasslands in the northern Ruahine Range.

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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/11668/mountain-cedar-timberline (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by John Dawson, published 1 March 2009.