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How to grow New Zealand native plants.

Latin
               
Botanical Name
Maori name
Common Name
taramea
golden speargrass; golden spaniard
taramea
speargrass, spaniard
taramea
giant spaniard, giant speargrass, blue spaniard
taramea
spaniard; speargrass
common maidenhair
kauri
titoki
New Zealand oak
karapapa; toropapa
shrubby honeysuckle
mountain alseuosmia
hunangamoho
bamboo grass; wind grass
mountain wineberry
makomako
wineberry
rengarenga
renga lily; rock lily
hutu
hen and chickens fern; mother spleenwort
shining spleenwort
sickle spleenwort
ground spleenwort
kakaha
bush lily; bush flax
swamp astelia
hinarepe
sand tussock
baumea
baumea
taraire
tawa
piupiu
crown fern
kiokio
swamp kiokio
kiokio
tauhinu
yellow shrub daisy
rangiora
climbing daisy
purei
cutty grass
maurea
Longwood tussock
purei
sedge
Glen Murray tussock
bush sedge
rautahi
cutty grass
sedge
bush sedge
sea sedge
purei
sedge
pukio
niggerhead
purei
sedge
bush sedge
speckled sedge
pukio
niggerhead
NZ broom
tree broom; swamp broom; South Island broom
common broom; New Zealand broom
whaupaku
climbing broom
leafy broom
New Zealand broom
putaputaweta
marbleleaf
tauhinu
cottonwood
bush tussock; broad-leaved bush tussock
red tussock; copper tussock
weeping broom; cord broom
leafless clematis
yellow clematis
clematis
puawhananga
sand coprosma
mamangi
tree coprosma
thin-leaved coprosma; veined coprosma
thick-leaved coprosma
hupiro
stinkwood
raurekau; kanono; manono
mikimiki, yellow-wood
karamu; kakaramu
shining karamu
karamu
coastal karamu
coprosma
mikimiki
leafy coprosma
mikimiki, mingmingi
taupata
twiggy coprosma
mikimiki
rigid mikimiki
karamu
round-leaved coprosma
mikimiki
red-stemmed coprosma
mikimiki
mikimiki
pale green coprosma
mikimiki
mikimiki
coral broom
ti kouka; ti
cabbage tree
ti ngahere
forest cabbage tree
toi
mountain cabbage tree; broad-leaved cabbage tree
tutu
tree tutu
tutu
korokio; Korokio-taranga
korokio
wire-netting bush
toetoe; kakaho
toetoe
toetoe grass
toetoe
toetoe
karaka
punui
ponga
silver fern
mamaku
kaponga
soft tree fern
mingimingi
prickly heath; prickly mingimingi
toetoe upokotangata
giant umbrella sedge; coastal cutty grass
kahikatea
white pine
rimu
red pine
tufted hair-grass
pingao; pikao
golden sand sedge
inkberry; blueberry
wheki-ponga
wheki
matagouri; tumatakuru
matagouri, wild irishman
akeake
inanga
turpentine scrub, grass tree
inanga
turpentine scrub, grass tree
neinei, emiemi, taratari awha
spiderwood
inanga
turpentine scrub, grass tree
mountain neinei
inanga
turpentine scrub, grass tree
kohekohe
New Zealand mahogany
hinau
pokaka
parataniwha
spike sedge
tall spike sedge; bamboo spike sedge
blue wheat grass
wheat grass
wheat grass
wheat grass
blue wheat grass
wheat grass
whau
shore spurge; New Zealand sea spurge
Banks Peninsula blue fescue
hard tussock
fescue tussock; hard tussock
kiekie
fuchsia; tree fuchsia
climbing fuchsia
tarangarara
tarangarara
mapere
tupari-maunga
kauri grass
Hangehange
New Zealand Privet
papauma; kapuka
broadleaf
puka
puka
bog pine
pinkpine
manoao
toatoa
shrubby haloragis
whipcord hebe
kokomuka
koromiko
koromiko
koromiko
koromiko
koromiko
titirangi, napuka
coastal koromiko
koromiko
Banks Peninsula koromiko
koromiko
koromiko
koromiko
porokaiwhiri
pigeonwood
niniao
karetu
holy grass
narrow-leaved lacebark
mountain ribbonwood
houhere
lacebark
houhere
long-leaved lacebark
New Zealand St Johnswort
swamp millet
knobby clubrush; leafless sedge; knotted sedge
tawari
leafless rush
grass-leaved rush; flat-leaved rush
leafless rush
leafless rush
sea rush
leafless rush; giant rush
flat-leaved rush; grass-leaved rush
leafless rush
rewarewa
New Zealand honeysuckle
kanuka
white tea tree
silver pine
pukatea
four square; square-stemmed sedge; square sedge
yellow-silver pine
oioi
jointed wire rush
manuka
red tea tree
mingimingi
mingimingi
mikoikoi
NZ iris
kaikawaka; pahautea
New Zealand cedar, mountain cedar
kawaka
New Zealand cedar
rauhuia
linen flax; New Zealand linen flax
ramarama
rohutu
NZ myrtle
coastal woodrush
kawakawa
pepper tree
poataniwha
wharangi
porcupine shrub
porcupine shrub
mahoe; mahoe-wao
narrow-leaved mahoe
mahoe
large-leaved mahoe
mahoe
small-leaved mahoe
mahoe
coastal mahoe
mahoe; hinahina
whiteywood; cow leaf
climbing rata
pohutukawa
New Zealand Christmas tree
rata
northern rata
rata
southern rata
bush rice grass
rice grass
pohuehue
bush pohuehue
pohuehue
shrub pohuehue, small-leaved pohuehue, wire vine
ngaio
mapou
red matipo
mapou; matipo
weeping mapou; weeping matipo
toro
rohutu
maire
coastal maire
maire
black maire
maire
white maire
orooro
narrow-leaved maire
tawhai
red beech
tawhai
silver beech
tawhai rauriki
mountain beech (var. cliffortioides); black beech (var. solandri)
tawhai raunui
hard beech
Marlborough pink broom
Canterbury pink broom
glossy tree daisy; common tree daisy
shrub daisy
fragrant tree daisy
akepiro
mountain holly
scented shrub daisy
akiraho; akeake
golden akeake
heketara
coastal shrub daisy
twiggy shrub daisy
New Zealand pellitory