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North Island Lacebark (Hoheria populnea)Observer
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Lacebark
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Iceplant (Hylotelephium spectabile)Observer
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Hylotelephium spectabile (Iceplant or Butterfly stonecrop) This plant is a magnet for introduced bumblebees and Monarch butterflies here in NZ. Prolific flowering in summer months here.
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Akeake (Dodonaea viscosa)Observer
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In Catchpool Centre car park. Planted by DOC when it was their Education Centre and ranger's field office, along with Kauri, acacia, tree lucerne and other non-local species to the Remutaka Forest Park.
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Box Elder (Acer negundo)Observer
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15 metre deciduous tree with lovely pendulous flowers in spring
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Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna)Observer
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Growing like a weed in my garden. Petals are shiny and look almost like plastic, imitation flowers.
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Lowland Horopito (Pseudowintera axillaris)Observer
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On shortcut track between McKerrow and Whakanui Tracks.
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Observer
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Kirk's Tree Daisy - Brachyglottis kirkii var. kirkii - off East Whakanui Track in Remutaka Forest Park. On the ground, but a large epiphytic version was up a tree nearby.
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Giant Earthworms (Family Megascolecidae)Observer
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On Whakanui Track in the Remutaka Range.
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Southern Cinnabar Polypore (Trametes coccinea)Observer
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On Evans Track above Scholes Stream.
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New Zealand Jasmine (Parsonsia capsularis)Observer
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Slender vine climbing up supplejack in Scholes Creek area behind Camp Wainui.
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Tectarchus huttoniObserver
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Another pair of stick insects on my front gate. Such a variety of colours and shapes!
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Pipe-cleaner Moss (Ptychomnion aciculare)Observer
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On side ridge off McKerrow Track in the Remutaka Forest Park
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Poataniwha (Melicope simplex)Observer
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Melocope simplex ? Is currently host to some Ileostylus micranthus (green mistletoe) and grows well in this particular area.
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Genus AcanthoxylaObserver
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Couple of stick insects on my front gate.
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Family GeoglossaceaeObserver
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On McKerrow Track in Remutaka Forest Park.
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Large Brown Vagrant Spider (Uliodon albopunctatus)Observer
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Large spider in my tree nursery.
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Bush Flax (Astelia fragrans)Observer
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On McKerrow Track in Remutaka Forest Park.
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Butterfly Bush (Buddleja davidii)Observer
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On old logging road in my Restoration project. Earmarked for removal.
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Kaikomako (Pennantia corymbosa)Observer
petercooperDescription
On the Catchpool access road in the Remutaka Forest Park
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Tūī (Mainland Tūī) (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae ssp. novaeseelandiae)Observer
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Tui feeding on kowhai outside the Catchpool Centre, Remutaka Forest Park.
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Kererū (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae)Observer
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Kereru - on Muehlenbeckia astonii
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Fierce Lancewood (Pseudopanax ferox)Observer
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Fierce lancewood - Catchpool Centre, Remutaka Forest Park.
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Kōtukutuku (Fuchsia excorticata)Observer
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Kotukutuku - NZ Tree fuchsia. Catchpool Valley entrance, Remutaka Forest Park.
