11009-17305 Small white climbing rata, or akatorotoro (Metrosideros perforata) view of flowering vine on tree fern, Kaimai Ranges *
DSC_5175 Mountain wineberry (Aristotelia fruticosa) fleshy pink berries. An endemic, small leaved, sub-divaricate woody shrub species with fruits which are distributed by birds. Found throughout the North, South and Stewart Islands, though often localised in occurrence. Gertrude Valley, Fiordland *
DSC_0011 Narrow-leaved lacebark (Hoheria angustifolia) an example of a beautiful large tree - a remnant of the broadleaf forests that once covered the Otago Peninsula - that has been needlessly killed by a horse, completely stripping the bark in winter. Boulder Beach, Otago Peninsula *
