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… northern representative and is a common lowland or coastal forest tree from almost the North Cape to about latitude 38° … average fertility. Tawa occurs in lowland to lower montane forest from almost the North Cape to the Seaward Kaikoura … of the North Island where it is the major component of many forests. Trees of both species grow to medium sizes, 60 to …
… woody plants or lianes which were a feature of the mixed forest at lowland and montane elevations throughout New … with difficulty that a way could be cut through the tangled forest undergrowth. Although supplejack is still common in. much of the remaining forest, it has been greatly reduced in extent by the …
… Where two or more types of forest meet, transition types occur, sometimes on an … are frequent in certain localities as emergents in beech forest. by Alec Lindsay Poole, M.SC., B.FOR.SC., F.R.S.N.Z., Director-General of Forests, Wellington. Monograph on the New Zealand Beech …
… tree make the karaka a distinctive feature of the coastal forest of the North Island and the upper part of the South … it fits into the general level of the low canopy of coastal forest. It sometimes occurs sparsely further inland in lowland forest. The shining leaves grow up to 7–8 in. long and are …
… long which it deposits in nests under the leaf mould of the forest floor. Thirty-eight species and varieties of these … west of the main axial mountain systems, either in rain forest or in subalpine forest and tussock. Some of the South Island species are …
… Podocarp forest covered most of the peninsula at the time of … was probably 1870; by that time 75 per cent of the forest had been cut over or cleared. By 1900 almost the whole forest cover of 140,000 acres had been removed and only a …
… prickly stems clasp the clothing of travellers through the forest. They have become more widespread in second growth … of 30 ft or more. The juvenile plant creeps over the forest floor until it finds a tree or shrub to climb. The … the North, South, and Stewart Islands in lowland to montane forest. R. squarrosus is a species that has different forms, …
… dark coloured and with variegated leaves. Karo grows along forest margins and streamsides from North Cape to Poverty … Islands, while kohuhu is found in coastal and lower montane forest in both islands except that to the west of the Main … and some forms come close to P. colensoi which occurs in forest and scrub mainly at higher elevations. Some species …
… to the South Island, it occurs in shrubland or along forest margins mainly west of the divide. A species with … is an attractive garden plant. Several species are found in forest openings along stream and river banks or lake shores. …
… species are seen in the northern kauri or the West Coast forest, the appearance is striking. The genus belongs to the … species like nei-nei or D. latifolium are true forest plants. This particular one occurs in the kauri forests. D. matthewsii also occurs in northern forests while …