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How to grow New Zealand native plants.

Common
               
Botanical Name
Maori name
Common Name
avalanche grass
hunangamoho
bamboo grass; wind grass
Banks Peninsula blue fescue
Banks Peninsula koromiko
baumea
baumea
maire
black maire
kohuhu; matipo; tawhiri
black matipo
matai
black pine
pikopiko
black shield fern; common shield fern
blue tussock
blue wheat grass
blue wheat grass
bog pine
bog sedge; bog rush
rarauhe
bracken; bracken fern
papauma; kapuka
broadleaf
miro
brown pine
poroporo
bullibul; bullibulli
poroporo
bullibul; bullibulli
raupo
bullrush
tataramoa
Bush lawyer
kakaha
bush lily; bush flax
pohuehue
bush pohuehue
bush rice grass
bush sedge
bush sedge
bush sedge
bush tussock; broad-leaved bush tussock
ti kouka; ti
cabbage tree
Canterbury pink broom
tanekaha
celery pine
clematis
climbing broom
climbing daisy
climbing fuchsia
climbing rata
houpara
coastal fivefinger
karamu
coastal karamu
titirangi, napuka
coastal koromiko
mahoe
coastal mahoe
maire
coastal maire
coastal shrub daisy
coastal woodrush
common broom; New Zealand broom
common maidenhair
coprosma
coral broom
tauhinu
cottonwood
piupiu
crown fern
purei
cutty grass
rautahi
cutty grass
fescue tussock; hard tussock
fierce lancewood
whauwhaupaku
five-finger
flat-leaved rush; grass-leaved rush
ti ngahere
forest cabbage tree
four square; square-stemmed sedge; square sedge
fragrant tree daisy
fuchsia; tree fuchsia
taramea
giant spaniard, giant speargrass, blue spaniard
toetoe upokotangata
giant umbrella sedge; coastal cutty grass
Glen Murray tussock
glossy tree daisy; common tree daisy
akiraho; akeake
golden akeake
pingao; pikao
golden sand sedge
taramea
golden speargrass; golden spaniard
kumarahou;tainui
golden tainui; gumdigger's soap
grass-leaved rush; flat-leaved rush
ground spleenwort
tawhai raunui
hard beech
hard tussock
hen and chickens fern; mother spleenwort
karetu
holy grass
hook-sedge; hook-grass; fish hooks
watau
hook-sedge; hook-grass; fish hooks
inkberry; blueberry
oioi
jointed wire rush
tupari-maunga
kauri grass
knobby clubrush; leafless sedge; knotted sedge
houhere
lacebark
kapungawha
lake clubrush
horoeka
lancewood
kowhai; Taupo kowhai
large-leaved kowhai; Taupo kowhai
mahoe
large-leaved mahoe
turepo
large-leaved milk tree
leafless clematis
leafless rush
leafless rush
leafless rush
leafless rush
leafless rush; giant rush
leafy broom
leafy coprosma
tarata
lemonwood
rauhuia
linen flax; New Zealand linen flax
houhere
long-leaved lacebark
maurea
Longwood tussock
horopito
lowland horopito; lowland pepper wood
manatu
lowland ribbonwood; ribbonwood
totara
lowland totara
putaputaweta
marbleleaf
Marlborough pink broom
marsh yellow cress
matagouri; tumatakuru
matagouri, wild irishman
mikimiki
mikimiki
mikimiki
mikimiki
mikimiki, yellow-wood
turepo
milk tree; small-leaved milk tree
mountain alseuosmia
tawhai rauriki
mountain beech (var. cliffortioides); black beech (var. solandri)
toi
mountain cabbage tree; broad-leaved cabbage tree
orihou
mountain five-finger; three-finger
wharariki
mountain flax
mountain holly
mountain neinei
mountain ribbonwood
toatoa
mountain toatoa; mountain celery pine
mountain wineberry
narrow-leaved lacebark
mahoe; mahoe-wao
narrow-leaved mahoe
orooro
narrow-leaved maire
needle tussock
totara
needle-leaved totara; Westland totara
New Zealand broom
kawaka
New Zealand cedar
kaikawaka; pahautea
New Zealand cedar, mountain cedar
pohutukawa
New Zealand Christmas tree
New Zealand dock; Maori dock
rewarewa
New Zealand honeysuckle
kohekohe
New Zealand mahogany
titoki
New Zealand oak
kohia
New Zealand passion flower; New Zealand passionfruit
New Zealand pellitory
Hangehange
New Zealand Privet
New Zealand St Johnswort
pukio
niggerhead
pukio
niggerhead
nikau
nikau palm
rata
northern rata
NZ broom
harakeke
NZ flax
mikoikoi
NZ iris
rohutu
NZ myrtle
oat grass
pale green coprosma
kawakawa
pepper tree
horopito
pepper wood; mountain horopito; red horopito
porokaiwhiri
pigeonwood
pinkpine
porcupine shrub
porcupine shrub
mingimingi
prickly heath; prickly mingimingi
puniu
prickly shield fern
kowhai
prostrate kowhai
puka
puka
purple panax
kohuhu
Ralph's kohuhu
tawhai
red beech
mapou
red matipo
rimu
red pine
manuka
red tea tree
red tussock; copper tussock
mikimiki
red-stemmed coprosma
rengarenga
renga lily; rock lily
rice grass
mikimiki
rigid mikimiki
round-leaved coprosma
salt grass
saltmarsh ribbonwood
sand coprosma
hinarepe
sand tussock
sand twitch
scented shrub daisy
scrub nettle
sea rush
sea sedge
purei
sedge
sedge
purei
sedge
purei
sedge
pate; patete
seven-finger
karamu; kakaramu
shining karamu
shining spleenwort
shore pimpernel; sea primrose
shore spurge; New Zealand sea spurge
shrub daisy
pohuehue
shrub pohuehue, small-leaved pohuehue, wire vine
toatoa
shrubby haloragis
karapapa; toropapa
shrubby honeysuckle
sickle spleenwort
tawhai
silver beech
ponga
silver fern
silver pine
silver tussock
small flowered jasmine; New Zealand jasmine
mahoe
small-leaved mahoe
kaponga
soft tree fern
rata
southern rata
taramea
spaniard; speargrass
taramea
speargrass, spaniard
speckled sedge
neinei, emiemi, taratari awha
spiderwood
spike sedge
spinifex; silvery sand grass
hupiro
stinkwood
kareao
supplejack
swamp astelia
kiokio
swamp kiokio
swamp lawyer
maire tawake
swamp maire
swamp millet
sweet fern
tall spike sedge; bamboo spike sedge
tangled panax
teucridium; New Zealand verbena
thick-leaved coprosma
totara
thin-barked totara; Hall's totara; mountain totara
thin-leaved coprosma; veined coprosma
toetoe
toetoe grass
tree broom; swamp broom; South Island broom
mamangi
tree coprosma
ongaonga
tree nettle
tutu
tree tutu
tufted hair-grass
inanga
turpentine scrub, grass tree
inanga
turpentine scrub, grass tree
inanga
turpentine scrub, grass tree
inanga
turpentine scrub, grass tree
twiggy coprosma
twiggy shrub daisy
weeping broom; cord broom
kowhai
weeping kowhai
mapou; matipo
weeping mapou; weeping matipo
tawheowheo
Westland quintinia, quintinia
wheat grass
wheat grass
wheat grass
wheat grass
whipcord hebe
maire
white maire
kahikatea
white pine
kanuka
white tea tree
tataramoa
white-leaved lawyer; bush lawyer
mahoe; hinahina
whiteywood; cow leaf
makomako
wineberry
korokio
wire-netting bush
yellow clematis
tauhinu
yellow shrub daisy
yellow-silver pine

Updated 20/12/2007 10.49AM by PIPI4