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Kahikatea

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Kahikatea

Kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) dominates the canopy of this swamp forest at Waitangiroto Lagoon in Westland. High rainfall and a mild climate ensure that the natural cover of large parts of the West Coast lowland is rainforest.

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Matt McGlone, Ecoregions – Windward districts: to the west, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12579/kahikatea (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Matt McGlone, published 1 March 2009.