Thread: Widowmakers

Fabulous trees in your pictures @Bagheera.
I found this amazing Puriri tree in the Puketoki Reserve a couple of years ago when I was trapping – the Reserve is a 100acre block of bush left virtually untouched for the community by the original logging company that cleared the east side of the Kaimai Ranges a hundred odd years ago. No one has any idea of the age of the Puriri tree – but my research of old Puriri trees in NZ indicates it is likely to be more than 1000 years. It has huge widow makers all around the trunk – a common feature of large Puriri trees that I have seen in the BOP. We cut a track to the tree from one of the main walking routes so the public can visit and view in amazement.