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Epiphytic puka

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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, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13762/epiphytic-puka (accessed 20 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.