THE DAISY FAMILY 



Thfee of the daisy trees are at the 

 present time covered with magnificent 

 heads of daisy like flowers. Brachv* 

 ftlOttll repanda (rangiOra) has large 

 loundish leaves, sometimes five inches 

 across. : ,;.<i having the leaf stalks and 

 the whole of the undei surface of the 

 leaf completely white. Olearia Cunning 

 liamii lias toothed leaves four or five 

 »"che s long and about two inches wide 

 >vi'.h an undersurfaee of grevish uhn, 



buff colour. oicaha' irbomcens 



b.rmerly mUda) U easily recognised bv 

 leaves having a characteristic satiny mi 

 der BUfW Olearia vjrgata on the 

 Mineral Kelt has narrow leaves less 

 than inch long and whitish underneath. 

 1IW nail daisy flowers grow doe* to 

 ,h * Cassinia fulvida, a for.,, 



Of tawhim. p„w 9 j u& < beyond the 

 "W* Wd on the Mineral Belt. 



THE IVY FAMILY 



. None of these Hinil. like the Kw^]. 

 •vv hat are tiers or hushes. Not„ 0 , 

 Panax arboremn. the five firmer. K * v < 

 a 1 along t o ,„e and in manv «E 

 in town. Its leaflets have e^lk. abon 

 ■4 in ! lone: Nothopnnax Cofcnso 

 ftfund from the Third House to the 



Mineral Belt It resembles the former 



ilnIL ,1 7 thi " k< ' 1 - ieaflate have ,' n 



■ aJks, though a strong ,talk anWts 

 ^"^'^ fan of leaflets. S5tfc 0 

 Panax simplex ,n it, adalf form res, m 

 a N. arborenm wi h only one Rn- 

 Rer to each leaf instead of ' five or 



eevea. Its uvenile 'eaves a, 



r'V r ft* K 



i l S to,5nrl beyond the Third 



House Nothopanax anbmalum a t 



unlike nil ifae former eperfeei Mrim 

 ">*a wire netting butf with 3 

 Fin|le leaves about a quarter of an 

 "**.*■» ^ ia not plentiful hut on' 

 :! >e- imen £*W, 0 n the feldc at t 

 Hllrf House clearing an,] many more 



en the dvv gota of the Fringe mi 



Sche dera ditftata reaentblei N arW 

 !!"! r 1 ' Ms ™g n«m>W leaflets m 



much Ihwner and more papery a,d \ Z 



>'•»;; ;«lrnor m , R raceme, of^-S^™^ 

 unhke the fod rreet hunehes of , 



run cbei*ct*™ti c of tne "five fine,,,. • 



II g*0KI .lnelly m , 1fm crulhrJ ^ 



THE KARAMU FAMILY 



At least a lozen species of Coprosma 

 are common along Ml€ line, |BO the 

 low undergrowth growing on the line 

 itself is chieily composed of some of the 

 Specie*, All are distinguished bv a 

 email triangular growvh (inteq>etiolar 

 BtipuJe) on the branchlet between the 

 baee* of the stalks of the opposite 

 teavea. Coprosma grandifolia (Kanono) 

 the plant from which the Maories 

 obtained their beat dyes .and is verv 

 plentiful. Kg large elliptical leaves, 

 sometimes eight niches long, have a 

 dark green raised midrib on the upper 

 aide, Coprosma lucida has large atony 

 haves with a raised yellow midrib. 

 Coprosma robusta has duller, smaller 

 • cave s w»th a sunken yellow midrib. 

 Coprosma linanifolia with verv narrow 

 leaves about two in, lies long and Co- 

 prosma Cuunjnghamii, probably a hy- 

 brid with leave* varying much in size 



and *a$e ,are Found chieily in PottpiJ] 

 House gnliy. Coprosma * loetidissima 



(atiukwond) has long stalked leaves 

 WJUefa give out a most offensive odour 

 \vhen bru.sed. The species rl.amnoides, 

 parvinora, propinqua, Colenaoi, miero 

 «arpa and can.ala all have small leaves 

 and generally grow to only moderate 

 sized bushes, so will not be described 

 here. 



THh HEATH FAMILY 



Gauithcria antipoda has leaves re 

 ambling these of Nntlmfagua Men 

 WeaU and ifl of en railed a "birch/' but 



it. has barn branch lets and never grivwi 

 •o more than a tall shrub "Cyathodes 

 acerosa with short pru/klv leaves stand 

 tag oat straight all round the hraml. 

 l^ts a: d brown hu ton like fruit \ 8 most 

 plentifol ontaide the bush. Cvathodes 

 frropetrifolia with still shorter jeaves is 

 round sparingly on the mineral belt. 

 LHacopctfon fasjiculantum is often mis 

 W«en for a manuka, but its leaves are 

 wmger and stand out atsraight from the 

 tram tdete. Dracophvllum longifolium, 

 grass tree, with foliage like tufts of 

 Kraas at the ends of :he branches, is 

 chiefly near the end of the 

 V 1 * 1 !; home smaller but similar species. 

 I rvilleanum. rosmsririinifolum and 

 yr-ohahly u.nllorum. are plentiful on 

 Hie SWinend Mi 



I HI: MYRTLE FAMILY 



I* HE SAXIFRAGE FAMILY 



Leptospernuira scoparium, the red 



manuka, has prickly leaves, large How 

 era and large capsules which can be 

 found on the branches all the year 

 round. U ns seldom more than a tail 

 shrub. Leptospermum eritoides, the 

 white manuka, which more often grows 

 mt<. n free, has softer, narrower, less 

 prickly leaves, while the flowers and 

 capeiueB are much smaller ai d the lat- 

 in anon Fail ffom the braaehea« Metro- 



siderus lucida, the mountain rata, it 

 v ell known to everybody. The climber, 

 Aletrosideros hypericilolia, with its 

 double KOWa of small leaves and pink- 

 isn white BWeraj occurs sparingly. 



THE MATIPOU FAMILY 



Suttonia australis (formerly Myrsine 

 Urvilhi), the mapOU OT matipou, with 

 its reddish yellow branches and crinkly 

 leaves, la nftei used in town as a 

 hedge plant, though the Maori name is 

 often misapplied to another favourite 

 hedge plant with black branches, name- 

 ly Pittosponim tenuifoliuin. Suttonia 

 (iivaricata occurs near the mineral beh 

 and is easily recognised by its small 

 heart shaped leaves and the peculiar 

 drooping hain't of its stiff wiry hramiuv. 



THE PITTOSPORUM FAMILY 



Pittisporum tenuifolium, or kohuhu. 



Wltfa its black branches and small ligh- 

 green crinkly leaves, is plentiful in our 

 town gardens, especially as a hedge 

 plant. PHtosporum tugenioides, the 

 taiata or lemon tree, is also ii/iiitnun 

 about bowit The long naimw pom r J 

 leavaa are of a bright yellowish greet, 

 colour and give out a pleasant lemon 

 iOani when bruised. Pittosporum di« 

 varicatum is a densely twiggy shrub 

 ifTOWimj in the bush* near the mineral 

 belt. L's minute leaves are most varied 

 in shape, but identification van usually 

 be obtained Prom Ihe : ma 11 puiple flow 

 era apd the cflaraoteH«tic pittoaporum 



-apsule^ enclosing black sticky seeda 



Weiumannia racemose, the kamahi, 



often erroneously called a. red birch or 



bastard l>irch, is probably the common 



est tree in the secondary growth along 



the line and Dr. G.Kkayne says it is 



the commonest tree in New Zealand. 



the faddish much toothed leaves vaiy 



considerably in size but are generally 



about an inch aril a half long. The 



• i« cmes of beautiful pinkish flowers are 



just coming out. In the young stage 



Ihe leaves are of! en divided in to thre«» 



leaflets. Carpodetus scrratus, the puta 

 put a whet a, sometimes called by Nel 



aon bushmen the Christmas tree, haa 

 beautiful leaves cf deeply mottled green 

 and bears at the end of the year a pro- 

 fusion of white s'.arlike flowers. 



THE KOK0MIK0 FAMILY 



The well known koromiko. Veronica 

 (or Hebe) salicifolia, with its beautiful 

 racemes of bluish white flowers, and 

 its leaves resembling in shape those of 

 a willow, is plentiful in places. A form 

 with much narrower leaves growing by 

 the zig zag track is called Veronica 

 angusUfolia. In Fourth House gully 

 two species with smaller leaves are in t 

 with. V. Menzitsii with erect branches, 

 and V. vernicosa with drooping 

 branches, but there is also an interest 

 ing series of intermediate hybrids. Or 

 the mineral belt V. btixifolia, the Ha 

 :ive box." is plentiful 



