Story: Tall broadleaf trees

Epiphytic puka (2nd of 3)

Epiphytic puka

Puka or shining broadleaf (Griselinia lucida) usually starts life as an epiphyte. This young plant is growing in the crook of a beech tree limb.

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Maggy Wassilieff, 'Tall broadleaf trees - Trees of the high country', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/13762/epiphytic-puka (accessed 20 April 2024)

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 24 Sep 2007