Daniel  LUSCOMBE  GALLERY

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NEW ZEALAND SPECIES
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Agathis australis
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Agathis australis
- Young female cone
New Zealand
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Agathis australis
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Agathis australis
- Mature female cone
New Zealand
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Agathis australis
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Agathis australis
- Tree
This is the second largest Agathis known called Te Matua Ngahere (Father of the forest); 29.9m tall, girth 16.41m height to the first branch 10.21m and estimated to be 2000 years old!
New Zealand
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Agathis australis
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Agathis australis
- Trunk
Other view of Te Matua Ngahere (Father of the forest).
New Zealand
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Agathis australis
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Agathis australis
- Trunk
Other view of Te Matua Ngahere (Father of the forest).
New Zealand
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Agathis australis
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Agathis australis
- Trunk
The largest Agathis known, called Tane Mahuta, 51m high, but doesn't have the same impressive girth.
New Zealand
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Agathis australis
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Agathis australis
- Tree
Another view of Tane Mahuta.
All of the old Kauris have epiphytes growing in their crowns.
New Zealand
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Dacrycarpus dacrydioides
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Dacrycarpus dacrydioides
- Females cones
New Zealand

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21 April 2002
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