In Nature Notes in the “Lyttelton Times”, Mr J. Drummond writes—Visitors who drive along the enchanting road from Hokitika southward to Harj Hari usually have their attention drawn by residents to a great tree-fern that, grows on the eastern side of the roocf close to where it runs near th.e banks of Lake lanthe. The fern is about thirty feet high. Its fronds, each home fifteen feet long and four feet broad, stretch out over the road. It is ope of the best specimens of the king ferns, ns West Coasters call the species. In the North Island it is better known by its Maori name, penga, kimetimes corrupted into bunga. Its West Coast name is a condensation of “Silver King,” a fanciful but dignified title for a kingly plant that nobody will ivfsti to change. .> . : •• -
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1922, Page 2
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