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Hackfall's Arboretum, East Coast

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Hackfall's Arboretum, East Coast

New Zealand’s largest collection of oak species is at Hackfall’s Arboretum, on a sheep station at Tinorito, near Gisborne. There are over 3,000 plant species there, with many varieties of alders, oaks, cherries, magnolias and maples.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Trees in the rural landscape – Ornamental plantings, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19714/hackfalls-arboretum-east-coast (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.