I planted this kowhai as a seedling about seven years ago in a cardboard biodegradable one litre milk container. This year is its best bloom yet. Had heaps of tuis and bellbirds and grey warblers visiting it.
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I planted this kowhai as a seedling about seven years ago in a cardboard biodegradable one litre milk container. This year is its best bloom yet. Had heaps of tuis and bellbirds and grey warblers visiting it.
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Toatoa is a closely related plant to tanekaha.
Careful, bracken fern root is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
if you pull the centre leaves, the palatable ones from the head, it will cause the head to separate into two...you can always tell if a cabbage tree has been 'harvested'!!!
I had an story published in the NZ Wildlife magazine and when I wrote it it said toi toi which is what I knew and when it was published it read toe toe.
Tanekaha (Phyllocladus trichomanoides) is a coniferous tree...the local dialect in my area refers to it as toatoa...and just to confuse everyone even more Haloragis erecta and Phyllocladus alpinus are also known as toatoa...
Sounds like your talking dirty Eeebees:D
Lemonwood?
we have five members of the austroderia family...
Austroderia fulvida (North + South Islands), Austroderia richardii (North + South Islands; naturalised in Tasmania), Austroderia splendens (coastal parts of North Island), Austroderia toetoe (North Island), Austroderia turbaria (Chatham Islands)
Some good info in here, lol yip names vary a heap through regions