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Tussock–shrubland, Blue Mountains, West Otago

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Tussock–shrubland, Blue Mountains, West Otago

A mosaic of tussock grass and turpentine shrub (Dracophyllum uniflorum) grows above a ground cover of moss on the exposed upper slopes of the Blue Mountains, Southland.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Shrublands – Mountain shrublands, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/14531/tussock-shrubland-blue-mountains-west-otago (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.