A recently dead New Zealand cedar (pahautea) at Ruth Flat, East Matukituki, in Mount Aspiring National Park. Possums are now blamed for the steep decline of pahautea. Autopsies of possum guts from Ruth Flat show the animals have taken the foliage abundantly. Though the decapitated needle-leaves have lost less than a centimetre, once the terminal bud and younger scale leaves are gone the branchlet dies, (see damage detail). Pahautea (also known as kaikawaka), on right, is a feature of wetter mountain forests approaching the snowline.
JOHN BARKLA
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Forest and Bird, Issue 291, 1 February 1999, Page 10
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87A recently dead New Zealand cedar (pahautea) at Ruth Flat, East Matukituki, in Mount Aspiring National Park. Possums are now blamed for the steep decline of pahautea. Autopsies of possum guts from Ruth Flat show the animals have taken the foliage abundantly. Though the decapitated needle-leaves have lost less than a centimetre, once the terminal bud and younger scale leaves are gone the branchlet dies, (see damage detail). Pahautea (also known as kaikawaka), on right, is a feature of wetter mountain forests approaching the snowline. JOHN BARKLA Forest and Bird, Issue 291, 1 February 1999, Page 10
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