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Kōrero: Tall broadleaf trees

Epiphytic puka

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Epiphytic puka

Puka or shining broadleaf (Griselinia lucida) usually starts life as an epiphyte. This young plant is growing in the crook of a beech tree limb.

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by Jeremy Rolfe

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Maggy Wassilieff, Tall broadleaf trees – Trees of the high country, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/13762/epiphytic-puka (accessed 25 June 2026).

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