Native Plants ID Flashcards
1.
Flax
Harakeke
Phormium tenax
2.
Pohutukawa
metrosideros excelsa
3.
Cabbage tree
tī kōuka
4.
Mānuka
Leptospermum scoparium
5.
Ngaio
Myoporum laetum
6.
Tawa
Beilschmiedia tawa
7.
Large-leaved coprosma
Raurekau / Kanono
Coprosma grandiflora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Large shrub with pairs of thin wavy, mottled leaves. Leaves to 20cm long, oval, pointed, with small pits at junction of veins. Sharp dark point on stem between pairs of leaves. Fruit prange to red, on obvious stalks in open clusters.
FEATURES
Shrub or small tree up to c. 6 m tall; plants much branched from base or with single trunk; branches and branchlets glabrous, smooth, under bark green. Interpetiolar stipules conspicuous, broadly deltoid, then tapering, apex with 2 porminent darkly pigmented denticles, glabrous. Leaves on smooth glabrous petioles 20-30 mm long; Lamina (100-)150-300 × (50-)70-100 mm, broadly elliptic to obovate, apex subacute or apiculate, base gradually narrowed to petiole; membranous to sub-coriaceous, adaxially dull glossy green or green mottled with maroon or purple, abaxially paler, margins flat or weakly undulose waved, rarely finely crenulate; venation prominent, reticulations conspicuous on both leaf surfaces, fine and close-set. Flowers in clusters on trichotomously branched peduncles up to 80 m. long. Male flowers with 4-5-toothed cupular calyx; corolla narrow-funnelform, lobes usually 5, acute, < tube; stamens us. 5. Female flowers usually with small stipulate bracts at axils of branches; calyx-teeth 5, small, acute; corolla tubular, lobes 5, narrow-triangular, acute, ± the same length as tube. Drupe reddish orange, oblong, 7-9 mm. long
8.
Kahikatea
Dacrycarpus dacrydioides
9.
Karo
Pittosporum crassifolia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Bushy small tree with greyish leathery oval leaves that are white underneath and clusters of small dark red flowers and large hard green fuzzy capsules inhabiting upper North Island. Leaves 5-7cm long, margins often rolled under. Fruit 2-3cm wide, splitting into three to display the black seeds in a yellow pith
THREATS
Not Threatened. However, the fruits are eaten by rats, and on rodent infested offshore islands this species rarely regenerates.
10.
Five Finger
Whauwhaupaku
Pseudopanax arboreus
11.
karamu
Coprosma robusta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Large bushy shrub with pairs of glossy leaves which have a small dark-tipped flap on the stem between the leaf bases. Leaves 7-12cm long, with a prominent ridge up the middle underneath and a furrow up the middle above. Fruit red, in tight clusters along twigs.
12.
tawhiwhi
pittosporum tenufolium
Pittosporum tenuifolium is a small evergreen tree – up to 10 m – commonly known as ‘kōhūhū’ and black matipo, and by other Māori names kohukohu and tawhiwhi. Its small, very dark, reddish-purple flowers generally go unnoticed, and are scented only at night. The Latin tenuifolium means “slender-leaved”
13.
Poohuehue
Maidenhair vine
Muehlenbeckia complexa
Vigorous semi-deciduous New Zealand native vine that grows into a tangled mass and forms a dense mound up to 2m wide and 5m high or more.
In its native environment, it plays a key role in sealing human and natural disturbances on the forest edge. It also suppresses the growth of introduced weeds such as blackberry and promotes increased insect diversity. It used in coastal restoration is an important stabilising sand dune plant and it also providing a valuable habitat for birds (nesting and shelter) as well as providing shelter for insects and lizards. It also has edible fruit which geckos and birds love.
14.
Kānuka
Kunzea ericoides
15.
Totara
podocarpus totara
16.
Kotukutuku
Fuschia excorticata
17.
Spinifex
Spinifex sericeus
The most important native sand-binding grass in New Zealand
18.
Golden sand sedge
pīkao/pīngao/pingao
Ficinia spiralis
19.
Knobby club rush
Wiwi
Ficinia nodosa
20.
māpou
Myrsine australis
21.
Mingimingi (prickly)
Leptecophylla juniperina
22.
Houhere
Hoheria populnea