Three places to walk amongst the leathery mountain neinei Forget a cabbage tree, nikau palm or stunted beech tree; the real ‘Dr Seuss’ tree of New Zealand is the mountain neinei. Growing at high altitude, often in the few hundred metres below the natural bushline, this stubby tree has an unmistakable form: a shaggy trunk […]
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