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Tree fuchsia bark

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Tree fuchsia bark

One of the most distinctive features of tree fuchsia is its cinnamon–orange bark, which peels away from its gnarled trunks in long strips.

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Joanna Orwin, Shrubs and small trees of the forest – Broadleaf colonisers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13808/tree-fuchsia-bark (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Joanna Orwin, published 1 March 2009, updated 1 July 2015.