Native Plants ID Flashcards by Sarah Quinn

Flax

Harakeke

Phormium tenax

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Pohutukawa

metrosideros excelsa

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Cabbage tree

tī kōuka

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Mānuka

Leptospermum scoparium

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Ngaio

Myoporum laetum

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Tawa

Beilschmiedia tawa

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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

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Kahikatea

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides

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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.

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10.

Five Finger

Whauwhaupaku

Pseudopanax arboreus

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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.

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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”

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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.