Rainforest (Podocarp Forest)
The forests of the western side of the park are much more complex, diverse and denser than the simple beech forests of the east. Mountain, silver and red beech all occur west, but red and silver being the most striking.
Podocarps tend to dominate the valley floors and mountain sides.
CHECKLIST
- TREES:
- Kahikatea
- Mior
- Mountain Totara
- Matai
- Rimu
- Red Beech
- Kamahi
- Southern Rata
- Fuchsia (Kotukutuku)
- Marble leaf (Putaputaweta)
- Whiteywood (Mahoe)
- Lemonwood
- Broadleaf
- Wineberry
- Pate
- SHRUBS:
- Coprosmas
- Stinkwood
- Pepper tree
- Rohutu (Myrtle)
- FERNS:
- Soft tree fern
- Small tree fern
- Wheki
- Filmy ferns
- Hard ferns
- Hen & Chickens fern
- Hanging spleenwort
- BOG SHRUBS:
- Bog pine
- Pygmy pine
- Dwarf heaths
- HERBS:
- Red tussock
- Sedges
- Sundews
- Bladderwort
- Bog Cushion
- MOSSES AND LICHENS:
- Sponge mosses
- Sphagnum
- Coral lichens
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