Two interesting specimens are included in a display of native plants at the Canterbury Museum. One of these, the mutton-bird scrub, shows the large, white-backed leaves, which are sometimes used by tourists as postcards. The other is the New Zealand spinach (rengamutu), which has been introduced into England, where it is cultivated in gardens. Actually a considerable number of New Zealand native plants have been introduced into Europe, according to the educational officer at the museum, Mr George Guy, who said that he had seen cabbage trees in Devonshire and other New Zealand native plants on the Riviera.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1938, Page 8
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