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Kōrero: Shrubs and small trees of the forest

Ngā whakaahua, ngā rauemi katoa

Mai i te whārangi 1 - Characteristics of small shrubs and trees

Forest margin

Understorey shrubs

Understorey shrubs

Mai i te whārangi 2 - Lookalike subcanopy trees

Māhoe in berry

Māhoe in berry

Māori fire-making kit

Māori fire-making kit

Male flowers of pigeonwood

Male flowers of pigeonwood (1 o 2)

Pigeonwood fruit

Pigeonwood fruit (2 o 2)

Putaputawētā

Juvenile kaikōmako

Juvenile kaikōmako (1 o 2)

Kaikōmako fruit

Kaikōmako fruit (2 o 2)

Māpou

Mai i te whārangi 3 - Broadleaf colonisers

Makomako – wineberry

Makomako – wineberry (1 o 2)

Wineberry in flower

Wineberry in flower (2 o 2)

Tree tutu

Kōtukutuku – tree fuchsia

Kōtukutuku – tree fuchsia

Tree fuchsia bark

Tree fuchsia bark

Mai i te whārangi 4 - Species with juvenile and adult forms

Growth forms of lancewood

Growth forms of lancewood

Haumakōroa

Five-finger

Patē

Mai i te whārangi 5 - Lacebarks and ribbonwoods

Narrow-leaved lacebark

Narrow-leaved lacebark

Long-leaved lacebark

Long-leaved lacebark

Lacebark

Mountain lacebark

Mountain lacebark

Ribbonwood

Mai i te whārangi 6 - Cabbage trees

Tī kōuka – New Zealand cabbage tree

Tī kōuka – New Zealand cabbage tree

Tī ngahere – forest cabbage tree

Tī ngahere – forest cabbage tree

Tōī – mountain cabbage tree

Tōī – mountain cabbage tree

Cabbage tree kete

Cabbage tree kete

Mai i te whārangi 7 - Coprosmas

Karamū

Taupata

Stinkwood

Small-leaved shrubby coprosmas

Small-leaved shrubby coprosmas

Mai i te whārangi 8 - Pittosporums

Karo

Tarata – lemonwood

Tarata – lemonwood

Black matipo

Pittosporum rigidum

Pittosporum rigidum

Mai i te whārangi 9 - Kōwhai and kākā beak

Godley’s kōwhai

Godley’s kōwhai

Kōwhai Christmas card

Kōwhai Christmas card

Kākā beak – kōwhai ngutu-kākā

Kākā beak – kōwhai ngutu-kākā (1 o 2)

Flowers of kākā beak

Flowers of kākā beak (2 o 2)

Mai i te whārangi 10 - Tree daisies: olearia and brachyglottis

Holly-leaved tree daisy

Holly-leaved tree daisy

Akiraho

Underside of heketara leaves

Underside of heketara leaves

Rangiora leaves

Rangiora leaves (1 o 2)

Rangiora flowering

Rangiora flowering (2 o 2)

Mai i te whārangi 11 - Tree dracophyllums: īnanga and neinei

Īnanga

Neinei

Mountain neinei

Mountain neinei

Mai i te whārangi 12 - Pepper trees: horopito and kawakawa

Horopito tree

Horopito tree (1 o 2)

Horopito leaves

Horopito leaves (2 o 2)

Lowland horopito

Lowland horopito

Kawakawa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārangi:

Joanna Orwin, 'Ngā whakaahua, ngā rauemi katoa', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/shrubs-and-small-trees-of-the-forest/media (accessed 10 June 2023)

He kōrero nā Joanna Orwin, i tāngia i te 24 Sep 2007, updated 1 Jul 2015