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July 2015

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Wheki-ponga with a skirt of old fronds in Kaiwhakauka Valley, Whanganui. Photo: Shaun Barnett
Three places to see the brown tree fern It’s the Victorian lady of New Zealand tree ferns; a substantial plant with a splay of dead fronds so voluminous that it resembles a woman’s skirt from those more chaste times. Wheki-ponga, or brown tree fern, is relatively widespread, occurring in both the North and South Islands, […]
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