Right: Few New Zealand trees display as much character as pahautea (New Zealand cedar), with their conical shape, vibrant foliage and striking bark. One Forest Service writer, Geoffrey Chavasse, described the pahautea trees of Ruahine Corner as '...stag--headed, split, leaning every which way, looking like little old gnomes, squat, thick in the butt, with rich green pointed caps and russet red trunks.' Pre-European Maori found the bark useful for fashioning into canoe-shaped vessels to store the muttonbirds (mottled petrels) that used to exist in the area.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 314, 1 November 2004, Page 15
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86Right: Few New Zealand trees display as much character as pahautea (New Zealand cedar), with their conical shape, vibrant foliage and striking bark. One Forest Service writer, Geoffrey Chavasse, described the pahautea trees of Ruahine Corner as '...stag-headed, split, leaning every which way, looking like little old gnomes, squat, thick in the butt, with rich green pointed caps and russet red trunks.' Pre-European Maori found the bark useful for fashioning into canoe-shaped vessels to store the muttonbirds (mottled petrels) that used to exist in the area. Forest and Bird, Issue 314, 1 November 2004, Page 15
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