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There is a wide variety of native trees, adapted to all the various micro-climates in New Zealand. The native bush ( forest ) ranges from the subtropical kauri forests of the northern North Island , temperate rainforests of the West Coast , the alpine forests of the Southern Alps and Fiordland to the coastal forests of the Abel Tasman National ...
Agathis australis, or kauri, is a coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae, found north of 38°S in the northern regions of New Zealand's North Island. [ 3 ] It is the largest (by volume) but not tallest species of tree in New Zealand, standing up to 50 m tall in the emergent layer above the forest's main canopy.
Cordyline pumilio is the smallest of New Zealand's five native species of Cordyline.Of the other species, the commonest are the common cabbage tree (C. australis), a tree up to 20 metres (66 feet) tall with a stout trunk and sword-like leaves, the forest cabbage tree (C. banksii) which has a slender, sweeping trunk, and the mountain cabbage tree (C. indivisa), a handsome plant with a trunk up ...
Cordyline australis, commonly known as the cabbage tree, [3] or by its Māori name of tī or tī kōuka, is a widely branched monocot tree endemic to New Zealand. It grows up to 20 metres (66 feet) tall [ 4 ] with a stout trunk and sword-like leaves, which are clustered at the tips of the branches and can be up to 1 metre (3 feet 3 inches) long.
New Zealand has ten species of tree ferns, [2] but there are numerous ground, climbing and perching smaller ferns to be found throughout the countries forests, the largest of which is the king fern. [ 3 ]
Araucaria heterophylla (synonym A. excelsa) is a species of conifer.As its vernacular name Norfolk Island pine (or Norfolk pine) implies, the tree is endemic to Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia.
Plantation forests of various sizes can now be found in all regions of New Zealand except Central Otago and Fiordland. In 2006 their total area was 1.8 million hectares, with 89% in Pinus radiata and 5% in Douglas fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ) [ 4 ] Log harvesting in 2006 was 18.8 million m 3 , down from 22.5 million m 3 in 2003.
Papua New Guinea Note: all the references to this species are historical accounts – there is no currently known living klinki of this height. [34] [35] [36] White Knight Manna gum (Eucalyptus viminalis) 88.9 292 Australia Fingal, Tasmania This tree has died, the likely cause being more frequent heatwaves and reduced rainfall. [37] [38] [39]