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Pharmacy, University of Otago, New Zealand The Kahikatea tree grows to a height of between 80 and 100 feet in swampy areas throughout the North and South Islands of New Zealand1. Wounds and bruising: The leaves of the kahikatea tree were boiled and then applied to the affected area to treat bruising2. Genitourinary complaints: The berries of the kahikatea tree have diuretic properties and boiled leaves were taken for urinary complaints3, 4. pharmacy.otago.ac.nz /rongoa/pages/kahikatea.htm   (229 words)

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (Kahikatea) is a coniferous tree endemic to New Zealand. Before extensive logging, trees of 60 m height were known, though a specimen 55 m tall in Pirongia Forest Reserve is the tallest surviving. Kahikatea, along with other trees in privately owned forests, can only be harvested under a permit system and if sustainable harvesting techniques are used. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dacrycarpus_dacrydioides   (335 words)

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides description Most of the year, kahikatea does not bear recognizable reproductive structures, and in its native forest it is commonly so tall that foliage characters are of little use in identification. Kahikatea dominates two main landforms: the fertile, silty, free-draining floodplains and low terraces of rivers, and the wet margins of the lowland swamps and bogs (generally referred to by the Maori name pakihi) of the West Coast of the South Island. The Maori say that the kahikatea is the child of Tane and Hine waoriki, or of Tane and Kuraki. www.conifers.org /po/da_s/dacrydioides.htm   (1472 words)

My Visit to the Haast Rainforest The Kahikatea tree, which grows only in New Zealand, is related to trees that existed 100 million years ago. Male kahikatea trees produce small cones, which spray the air with pollen when the wind blows. Kahikatea means "food basket of the forest" in the Maori language. teacher.scholastic.com /zealand/forest/colin.htm   (644 words)

Kahikatea Once the summer home of renowned writer Armistead Maupin, the property was acquired by his sister, Jane Maupin Yates, and her late husband Joe, in 1993. Esteemed visitors such as Sir Ian McKellen (who says "Kahikatea rivals Middle-earth") have enjoyed the relaxation of Te Rangi. Kahikatea has been honoured by Air New Zealand Magazine as their "Getaway Destination." In a country billed as one of the safest and friendliest to visit, Kahikatea invites you to the ultimate getaway from the stress of today's world. www.kahikatea.com /kahikatea.htm   (285 words)

about the kahikarea tree Kahikatea can form extensive forests in swampy areas, but individual trees grow to the largest size on damp, fertile soils, often close to the most swampy ground. In its youth the tree has a most distinctive conical form, which changes with age to a heavily branched spreading crown as the tree moves through a life which may last more than 700 years. Kahikatea is found throughout New Zealand’s three main islands. www.mtbruce.org.nz /kahikatea.htm   (126 words)

Pehitawa Kahikatea Forest Pehitawa Kahikatea forest is almost in virgin condition. The Pehitawa Kahikatea Forest Reserve is an 18.5ha block which forms part of a series of small remnants of lowland kahikatea forest along the Mangapu River, 5km north-west of Te Kuiti in the northern King Country. Kahikatea are particularly susceptible to poison so weed control needs to be handled very carefully. homepages.ihug.co.nz /~nznfrt/projects/pehitawa.html   (408 words)

Parks & Waterways Publications Tall growing trees such as kahikatea, manatu and houhere will be planted in strategic places in order to lessen the visual intrusions of roads and houses and break-up the expanse of open grazing marsh areas. However the concept plan restricts kahikatea to the central area currently occupied by willow forest and a wide strip to the south of the Central Ponding Area, scattered riparian strips and the transition between sand dunes and peatlands in the north. Because of their potential size kahikatea will be one of the major species used to screen visual intrusions where height is required and soil types permit. www.ccc.govt.nz /Parks/Publications/mp_travis_11.asp   (1010 words)

Amberlamb - Kahikatea: South Island New Zealand Kahikatea is a beautifully restored and lovingly maintained country estate offering unparalleled, uninterrupted, three hundred and sixty degree views of the amazing Akaroa Harbour and Akaroa Heads, the South Pacific Ocean as well as Mount Bossu, Saddle Hill and Rocky Peak. The estate comprises of Kahikatea and Te Rangi houses, the former being the principal residence with Te Rangi currently being operated very successfully as luxury lodgings for guests seeking the peace, seclusion, luxury and beauty of the estate and its surroundings. The Kahikatea estate has been described by guests as “heaven on earth”, “the best place over the rainbow” and “a slice of paradise” and is quite simply one of the most stunningly situated, beautifully restored properties available anywhere in the world! www.amberlamb.com /index.php/a/n/kahikatea-south-island-new-zealand   (422 words)

Kahikatea, New Zealand, Christopher Webster, Sotheby's International Realty Kahikatea, a secluded country estate on the Banks Peninsula of the South Island of New Zealand, offers ultimate peace, privacy, and comfort. This enchanting property, a colonial homestead originating from the 1860's, was lovingly restored to the highest standards in 1996. The extensive grounds of Kahikatea include well established gardens with English flowerbeds, mature native and exotic trees, roses, producing fruit trees, and a landscaped duck pond fed by a rushing stream and waterfall, all easily accessed and enjoyed by numerous paths and seating areas. www.chriswebster.com /Properties/NewZealand/Kahikatea.htm   (152 words)

Riccarton House & Bush - Riccarton Bush Stroll for 10 minutes to a tranquil grove of tall kahikatea trees at the heart of this ancient native forest. In response to a continual cycle of flooding, forests established wherever suitable conditions were created, only to be destroyed in their turn. These 600-year-old kahikatea trees are the latest generation of a forest that established on this site 3000 years ago. www.riccartonhouse.co.nz /riccarton_bush   (153 words)

KAHIKATEA or WHITE PINE - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand This pine was formerly the most beautiful tree of lowland swampy forests throughout the country; but the stopbanking of rivers and the draining and conversion of swamps to pastures have caused the forests of kahikatea largely to disappear except on the West Coast. When peaty swamps are drained, kahikatea tree stumps in similar densities are sometimes exposed, indicating earlier forests. Kahikatea grows to heights of over 150 ft and is the tallest of New Zealand forest trees. www.teara.govt.nz /1966/K/KahikateaOrWhitePine/KahikateaOrWhitePine/en   (388 words)

EW Waikato Kahikatea Forest Fragments Kahikatea stands grow on fertile floodplains, lake margins and riverbanks throughout the Waikato Region and elsewhere in New Zealand. Because kahikatea forests tend to grow on flat, fertile sites ideal for farmland, they are often at risk of being cleared. Kahikatea is one of the most common forest types that occurs as forest fragments in the Waikato Region. www.ew.govt.nz /enviroinfo/land/biodiversity/fragments/kahikatea   (846 words)

NATUREANDCO.COM - Visit the Native Podocarp & Broadleaf Forests of New Zealand: What to See and Where to Find them This is a rare and significant remnant of the kahikatea forest that was common in the Gisborne Plains, before being cleared for agriculture. Under the kahikatea canopy the forest is also rich in puriri, thus forming an unusual association with a coastal character. Much of the inlet is bordered by native forest, with kahikatea, rata, rimu, nikau palm and beech. natureandco.com /travel_and_adventure/sightsee/natfor/podoc-natfor.php3   (1659 words)

Artists art in Queenstown, Arrowtown, New Zealand Jim Robbie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The kahikatea is our tallest native tree, mature specimens as high as 60 metres being recorded. Most of the remaining kahikatea forest is on the West Coast of the South Island. This is a soft wood with a warm cream colour, and was used to make woooden "pats" for moulding butter and in the dairy industry for packing. www.woodart.co.nz /art.htm   (636 words)

Gray's Bush Scenic Reserve: Gisborne area Gray's Bush is semi-coastal in character and has a dominant canopy of kahikatea, with significant presence of puriri. The reserve is surrounded by agricultural land, primarily used for growing citrus, grapes and cereal crops. The majority of the taller kahikatea in Gray's Bush are from 400-500 years old. www.doc.govt.nz /templates/PlaceProfile.aspx?id=34834   (850 words)

The Kiwanis Club of Te Awamutu and Yarndley's Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The council had determined that the best way to allow the public access into the forest while still protecting the regenerating vegetation and the delicate root buttress systems of the Kahikatea was to construct a raised timber walkway. New Zealand's tallest native tree, the Kahikatea, once covered much of the Waikato region but swamp drainage and milling for timber mean very few large stands of the tree remain. During the last century, many Kahikatea were chopped down to clear the way for farms. www.wave.co.nz /~kiwanis/taweyard.htm   (966 words)

Kahikatea Features With thirteen acres to explore, Kahikatea offers many private spots to relax. Enjoy the duckpond beside a rushing stream rimmed in tree ferns or a quiet bush walk where the only sounds heard are small waterfalls nearby and the birdsong. Or frolic with the doll-faced llamas that make up part of the enchantment of Kahikatea and constitute a breeding and stud operation. www.kahikatea.com /features.htm   (145 words)

Gorge Road School's Tree - Kahikatea.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The Ambassador's for the Gorge Road School, stand beneath their adopted canopy tree - the kahikatea. This tree is one of the Podocarp family, which are the main canopy trees in our Southland Plains forests. Kahikatea is the Maori name, but the early settlers also knew it as white pine. www.converge.org.nz /ntsth/grs.html   (50 words)

Ockham's Razor - 18/01/1998: O Brave New World This is the fleshy, edible part, a bluish plum colour in the case of our plum pine, but bright red in the case of the kahikatea. Kahikatea are ancient survivors from a world 'in which huge ammonites stalked the sea-floor and pterodactyls the air' (traces of kahikatea pollen and leaves have been identified by palynologists and paleobotanists in rocks from the Jurassic, some 160-180-million years ago. In 1841, in autumn, the botanist James Bidwill, for whom one of our araucaria is named, saw the 'enormous kahikatea loaded with their beautiful scarlet and fl fruit... www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ockham/stories/s373.htm   (1660 words)

Unique Wildlife of New Zealand Because of the notorious West Coast weather, there are often slips and washouts, but the road is seldom closed for long, and seldom blocked by snow. On this open land are found cattle, sheep and deer and someone has imported water buffalo, claiming that the conditions on the coast should suit them. The forests, particularly at the higher reaches, are largely rata and beech and, in the swampy ground, kahikatea. www.ecotours.co.nz /Brian/wildlife/westland   (775 words)

Bay of Plenty (NZ) Destination Outdoors - Location - Whakatane kahikatea (white pine) forest that once occupied the fringes of the extensive wetland in the area. The reserve has huge kahikatea, dwarfing the tawa and pukatea that provide most of the Other fine stands of kahikatea in the area were www.destinationoutdoors.co.nz /icon1.asp?id=11   (594 words)

Hicks & Laboyrie--Leaf breakdown in a Waikato stream To examine comparative mass-loss rates of some native evergreen and introduced deciduous trees in a New Zealand stream, fallen leaves were incubated in bags with 2 x 3 mm mesh openings. The native trees were mahoe (Melicytus ramiflorus), kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides), silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii), rewarewa (Knightia excelsa), tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa), and the introduced trees were silver birch (Betula pendula) and alder (Alnus glutinosa). The leaf bags were left in the Mangaotama Stream for 28 days from mid April to mid May 1995 when mean water temperature was 14.5deg.C, giving a total of 406 degree days. www.rsnz.org /publish/nzjmfr/1999/20.php   (303 words)

NZ Native Forests Restoration Trust We are delighted to report that the Trust is to acquire a 18.5 hectare (45 acre) block of lowland kahikatea in the Pehitawa Forest on the Mangapu River, some 5 km NW of Te Kuiti. Here the bush occupies the whole width of the narrow flood plain on the banks of the Mangapu River, and consists of mature pole stand kahikatea, some aged around 60 years (there was logging around 1940-41), with other trees over 100 years old. A further advantage for the Trust is the opportunity to be involved with the fencing and care of an adjacent block of kahikatea forest, leased by the Maori to the Brandons. www.nznfrt.org.nz /newsletter.php?newsletter_no=32   (2043 words)

literary bent.com | armistead maupin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The following year Armistead's sister Jane fell in love with the idyll while she was visiting, so she bought it. Jane and her partner Joe Yates have since become fulltime residents and transformed Kahikatea into a stunning, well-appointed country retreat complete with a self-contained guest cottage, a duck pond, a well-stocked library. We named the place Kahikatea-or, more accurately, renamed it, since it had once been called that-after the venerable native tree that stands where our driveway crosses the creek. www.literarybent.com /am_04_also_by_kahikatea_01.html   (971 words)

Stephens et al.--Water-use efficiency in kauri and kahikatea Abstract Isotopic carbon ratios were measured in homogenised leaf litter and in sapwood of Agathis australis (kauri) and Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (kahikatea) trees growing together at ridge crest and valley sites in Northland, New Zealand. The discrimination ([[Delta]]) values for kauri were significantly less than for kahikatea, indicating a possibility of higher water-use efficiency of kauri. It is concluded that the differences in [[Delta]] between kauri and kahikatea are the result of fundamental physiological differences between the species rather than resulting from site preferences. www.rsnz.org /publish/nzjb/1999/34.php   (175 words)

TKI - ICT PD Cluster | Kahikatea ICT Cluster The kahikatea is found scattered throughout our cluster area. The Kahikatea ICT Cluster is one of the 2002–2004 ICT PD Clusters. While websites linked from TKI have been screened for unsuitable content, the user is responsible for their own actions if using search engines on these sites. www.tki.org.nz /r/ict/pedagogy/schools_new/clusters/kahikatea/index_e.php   (153 words)

Yarndley's Bush Yarndley's Bush consists of 14 hectares of pristine Kahikatea bush, located three kilometres north of Te Awamutu. The Kahikatea is New Zealand's tallest native tree, and once covered much of the Waikato region. The Kahikatea can live to be more than 500 years old, although none of these trees have yet reached that age. www.teawamutu.co.nz /local-info/attractions/yarndley.shtml   (126 words)

DNZB / BIOGRAPHY Nothing is known of his education and early life, but as a young man he worked on dairy farms, in flax mills, and as a contractor on the Wellington--Palmerston North railway line. This forest was cleared by 1898, whereupon Wright and Carter concentrated on the sash and door factory they had established in 1897 at Mangaweka, then at the northern railhead of the main trunk railway line. Apart from matai and totara for local use the plant cut mainly kahikatea for export to Sydney. www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=3C6&QuickSearch=true   (944 words)

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