Dacrycarpus dacrydioides

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides juvenile leaf form

Kahikatea, White pine, Swamp pine

Kingdom: Plantae > Phylum: Tracheophyta > Class: Pinopsida > Order: Pinales > Family: Podocarpaceae > Genus: Dacrycarpus > Species: Dacrycarpus dacrydioides

Juicy details

NZPCN Dacrycarpus dacrydioides

NZ Flora Dacrycarpus dacrydioides

Juvenile leaf form

Photo 1 shows the juvenile leaf form

Photo 2 shows the adult leaf form (with koroī)

The "fruit" - koroī

The aril ("fruit") on female kahikatea is called koroī

Koroī is a broad term which also means "coniferous" or "cone"

Masting this year. It's…

cbeem Fri, 07/04/2023 - 08:53

Masting this year. It's epic!

Observations - Kahurangi Point - Mōkihinui

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Read more about Up close and personal - Metrosideros fulgens
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Metrosideros fulgens is often known as Scarlet Rātā Vine. it is everywhere here late summer in to autumn.

It will climb to the top of tall trees, and sometimes you can see it flowering all the way up the sides of the tall Rimu on the Valley track. Really spectacular.

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If there's one thing that Kiwis love it's a good sarcastic name. This one is not really a grass, it's a sedge, but it looks like grass so the wide variety of these hook sedges in New Zealand are called "Bastard grasses".