NATIVE TREES
| COLLECTION for heads park ! continuous flowering POHUTUKAWA Three dozen healthy puriris, pohu. tukawas, tainuis and other native trees, suitable for planting at the centennial park at The Heads have been received by the Whakatane Borough Council. An interesting variety of the pohutukawa is the Kermadec species which is described as a continuous flowering, having some blooms in varying quantities throughout the year. It comes from Sunday Island. The tainui .is a rapidly-growing shrub with greyish leaves and, as its name .shows, it is said to have been introduced to New Zealand from the Pacific Islands, by the Maoris who ■ came in the Tyinui canoe, one of the: main fleet .which arrived in the fourteenth century. The trees ; ar©' all excellent specimens, and: they*, afce ''being kept in boxes of soil until'the 'Site is prepared for them.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 35, 12 July 1939, Page 5
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138NATIVE TREES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 35, 12 July 1939, Page 5
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