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Kōrero: Tall broadleaf trees

Tōwai leaves and flowers

Tōwai leaves and flowers

Tōwai is closely related to kāmahi, and has similar flowering and fruiting spikes. Adult tōwai has compound leaves of three to five leaflets, unlike kāmahi’s single leaves.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Tall broadleaf trees – Trees of the high country, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/13760/towai-leaves-and-flowers (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.