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Kōrero: Grasslands

Flowering tussocks

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Flowering tussocks

These hunangamoho or broad-leaved bush tussocks (Chionochloa conspicua subsp. conspicua) are flowering in the upper Hollyford valley in Fiordland. Tussocks are grasses that grow from a central clump at their base. The leaves fan up and outward from the base.

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Reference: 10060778

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Alan F. Mark, Grasslands – Tussock grasslands, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/13333/flowering-tussocks (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Alan F. Mark, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.