Native Tree Identifications

Northern Advocate, 18 July 1939, Page 2

Native Tree Identifications

TANOA NATIVE SCHOOL The plant you call “kerosene plant" is Solarium marginatum. Although well naturalised in New Zealand as a garden outcast, it is really a native of tropical Africa. MATING A KAKAMEA SCHOOL (3) Putaputaweta (Carpodetus serratus); (4) Mairotawake or Swamp Maire (Eugenia maire); (5) Marnangi (Coprosma arboreal. DOUGLAS RYAN. Parua Bay No. 1 School Douglas reports that this school has collected and mounted sixty specimens —an excellent start. (1) The “grass” is Dracophyllum urvilleanurn variety filifclium; (2) Willow-leaved maire (Mida salicofolia); (3) Karamu (Coprosma robusta); (4) Yes, all these are Maire. (a) is the common Maire or Sandalwood (Mida myrtifolia), (b) and (c) are willow-leaved Maire (Mida salicifolia); (5) Marnangi (Coprosma arboreal; (6) Puka Merlya Sinclairii; (7) Melicope simplex—this plant has the unusual feature of a flattened or narrowly winged petiole; (81 Akepiro (Olearia furfuracaa). PARUA BAY No. 2 SCHOOL Your plants packed in damp moss opened up in excellent order. (1) Pukatea (Laurclia Novae-Zelandiao; (2) and (121 are both probably juvenile forms of Towai, At this stage it is

extremely difficult to distinguish between Towai and Malta Maka; (3) Towai in adult form (Weimnannia sylvicola); (4) (10) and (21) are all Mahoe or ‘Whitey-wood (Melicytus ramiflorus); (5) and (15) are again Towai; (6) a variety of Karamu (Coprosma robusta variety angustata); (7) Houhere (Hohcria populnea): (9) '• Koromiko, probably Veronica salicifolia: (11) Titoki (Alectrynn exeolsum); (13), (14) and (20) are Harvgohange (Geniostoma ligustrifoliurn): (16) Aka (Metrosideros scandens); (17) a Coprosma, probably a coprosma areolata; (18) Metrosideros Hypericifolia; (19) Marnangi (Coprosma arborea); (22) Send a fresh specimen of this plant and describe its habit of growth—is it an epiphyte, i.e., does, it grow on another plant; (23) Eupatoriurn—you know what to do with this plant, don’t you? RUAWAI DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL Manatu (Plagianthus betulinus). WHATOKO SCHOOL (1) Maire (Mida myrtifolia); <2> Metrosideros albiflora. Warmer ami Warmer An Irishman and an American were arguing as to whose country was the warmer. “Why.” said the American. “It’s so hot in the States that the sun singes the hair on your head.” “That’s nothing,” said Pat. "It's so hot where 1 come frour that they feed the hens on icc cream to keep them from laying hard boiled eggs!"