KARO, A CLIFF DWELLER.
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In nil our coatital forests north of Poverty Bay, wherever the pohutukawa raises its great spreading crown, titers also will be found a humbler companion. the slendcr-trunked kiiro. You will sec ilii'in on i-oastal flats, on old fixed sand tlwien, and on the shperest dill's, sometimes witb half their roots hanging free over the rocks. Two tilings they crave—the buffeting of salt gales and the drenching of driven spray. Take them away from (he glamour of the sea, however, and they will grow undaunted. even in gardens far south of. their original homes. Just now these trees are in fruit. Pohutukawa, in addition, has in some places flowered again, while the Kermaxlee pohutukawa commonly flowers in Jui'P in Wellington park*. Seeds, however, are the order of the day. Pohutukawa is showering countless thousands of papery seeds from its prim little cups; on Rangitoto this week' you will find them forming brown patches on the lava, while in a few Auckland streets drifts of pohutukawa see<Ls sometimes
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 129, 2 June 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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172KARO, A CLIFF DWELLER. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 129, 2 June 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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