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Central Otago tussock

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Central Otago tussock

The tussock that dominated the Central Otago landscape when Europeans first saw the district is still in evidence in higher and more remote areas such as here at Nenthorn, east of Middlemarch.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago region – Climate, plants and animals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22623/central-otago-tussock (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 18 August 2009, updated 1 May 2015.