Thread: Native plant identification

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Deer food:

Kapuka / Broadleaf / Griselinia littoralis
Mahoe / Whiteywood / Melicytus ramiflorus
Pate / Seven Finger / Schefflera digitata
Rangiora / Bushmans Friend / Brachyglottis repanda
Whauwhaupaku / Five Finger / Pseudopanax arboreus

Nasty

Onga Onga / Bushmans Lawyer / Urtica Ferox
Toetoe / Cutty grass / Austroderia
Tutu / ??? / Coriaria arborea
??? / Gorse / Ulex europaeus

Usefull / Medicinal

Harakeke / Flax / Phormium colensoi & tenax - pulp of leaves & roots, heated, use for infections and boils
Horopito / ??? / Pseudowintera colorata - leaves & tender branches steeped, use for chafing, wounds, bruises, cuts
Kawa Kawa / Pepper Tree / Macropiper excelsum - toothache, upset tummy
Koromiko / ??? / Hebe stricta - eating young leaves is a remedy for constipation
Kowhai / ??? / Sophora spp.
Manuka / Manuka / Leptospermum scoparium - leaves made into tea for fever, ash for dandruff
Rata / ??? / ???
??? / Dock / ??? - treatment for Onga Onga sting

Edible (human)

Aruhe / Fern root / Pteridium esculentum - carbohydrate, root cooked, then beaten to remove hard outer skin
Hinau / ??? / Elaeocarpus dentatus
Karaka / ??? / Corynocarpus laevigatus - flesh of berries, seed is poisonous
Kiekie / ??? / Freycinetia banksii
Mamaku / Black tree fern / Cyathea medullaris
Puha / Sow Thistle / ???
Ti Kouka / Cabbage tree / Cordyline australis - center of the head of the tree ,the base or pith(the white bit) of the spear like center can be eaten raw
Tawa / ??? / Beilschmiedia tawa
Kowhitiwhiti / Watercress / ???