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Mataī (Prumnopitys taxofolia, a tall tree of fertile lowland soils, grows throughout New Zealand. It usually forms part of an emergent, scattered layer of conifer trees above a broadleaf canopy.
Mataī (Prumnopitys taxofolia, a tall tree of fertile lowland soils, grows throughout New Zealand. It usually forms part of an emergent, scattered layer of conifer trees above a broadleaf canopy.
Maggy Wassilieff, Conifers – Mataī and miro: the plum pines, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12669/matai (accessed 24 June 2026).
Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.