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Kahikatea

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides

Also known as: white pine, Dacrycarpus dacrydioides

Aotearoa New Zealand's tallest native tree — a swamp-and-floodplain conifer reaching 60m, with a tapering crown and distinctive buttressed base. Once dominant across the country's lowland wetlands; now drastically reduced after a century of drainage for pasture. Foundational species for the rare lowland-podocarp swamp forest the Waitākere and Hunua remnants preserve.

Scientific

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides is a member of Podocarpaceae — the southern conifer family that dominated Gondwana. Reaches 60m, with a long clean trunk and conical crown. Juvenile foliage is fine and feathery; mature foliage is scale-like.

Kahikatea is wet-feet-tolerant in a way most large trees are not. Grew at landscape scale in the Waikato, Hauraki, and Manawatū lowlands prior to colonial drainage. Birds — particularly kererū and tūī — disperse the red fleshy-bracted seed.

Ecological status

Lowland kahikatea swamp forest is one of the most reduced ecosystems in Aotearoa — less than 1% of the original cover remains. Restoration projects across the country, including in [[tamaki-makaurau|Tāmaki Makaurau]] wetlands, work to re-establish kahikatea stands as part of broader floodplain rehabilitation.

See also

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  • Member of: [[plants]]
  • Contained by: [[tamaki-makaurau]]
  • Grown by: [[ecomatters-community-nursery]] · [[kauri-park-nurseries]] · [[te-whangai-trust]]

Sources

  • DOC kahikatea species pages
  • NZ Plant Conservation Network

A plant entry in the 0mn1.one [[directory]].

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Farms and nurseries in the 0mn1.one directory that grow kahikatea. Each is a real working operation — visit, buy from, learn from.

EcoMatters Community Nursery

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tamaki-makaurau

A community native-plant nursery operated by EcoMatters Environment Trust at 1 Olympic Place in New Lynn, West Auckland. Eco-sources from the Waitākere Ecological District and grows 30+ native species suited to stream and wetland environments. Plants are available online via click-and-collect; the operation supports both local restoration projects and home/landscape gardens.

Kauri Park Nurseries

substrate builder

tamaki-makaurau

New Zealand's largest wholesale native and urban-landscaping nursery, based on State Highway One at Kaiwaka, North Auckland (with a Palmerston North branch). A NZ-owned family business operating as a vertically integrated group — seed sourcing through site planting and maintenance — supplying civil contractors, forestry owners, government agencies, councils, developers, and landscape architects. Notable projects include supplying 2.5 million plants for the Transmission Gully motorway.

Te Whāngai Trust

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tamaki-makaurau

An eco-preneurial social enterprise founded in 2007 by Gary Dalton (fifth-generation Miranda farmer) and his wife Adrienne Dalton (Justice of the Peace). Operates native plant nurseries at Miranda (on the Firth of Thames) and Glenbrook (south Auckland) as activity-based learning platforms for welfare recipients, former offenders, and others facing barriers to work. Plants supply wetland restoration projects across the wider Auckland-Hauraki region.

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