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On bank.

On bank.

Non t t6

Under decaying mountain beech log

Male I believe. Have never seen seedlings below this one.

Baby lancewood?

I spend 4 days bush-bashing looking for deer, and these berries were everywhere! Love the colours :)

Tree close to coast. Large purple fruit similar to Tawa.

Found it feeding on Lobelia angulata

Of the 4 or 5 plants on site, only one flowering.

Locally abundant in montane herbfield

I suspect one of the same chickens I saw in the are a few weeks ago.

Occasional in lowland alluvial forest

Cookson kauri

Common in frost flat shrubland

fruit Musick pt

Did I get the right pheasant ID?

I think....

Tōī on old Te Iringa Hut clearing.

Occasional on high alpine rock debris

Rare canopy tree in swamp forest.

Most here, by far, are trees started from seeds sprouted in the ground. Twisting vines in tall trees are less common. All flowering like crazy early this season.

Always fun to find.

Part of a pure stand growing on old sand dunes

The summit of Three Pointer is covered in manuka growing as a very low shrub, flat on the ground.
Flowering vigorously and doing just fine.

A. ferox?

This was a wee highlight during a tramp! Was a tall robust specimen too.

Locally relatively common and forming the canopy in some places.

Common tree daisy of forest margins.

Truly living upto to its species epithet, a beautiful plant of the marble mountains. Most plants in flower.

On fallen Kunzea robusta

Abundant on coastal headland

Occasional large emergent trees in flower

One of three adult birds seen at this site.

Found these hideous things in my strawberries, along with a slug but what are they and how do I get rid of them!

Epiphytic on pohutukawa. In full flower.

Weeping broom makes a very odd treeline. George Saddle.