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Allan, H.
H. 1961.
Flora of New Zealand.
Volume I, Indigenous Tracheophyta.
Wellington: R.E.
Owen Government Printer.
Bell, V. and R.
E.
Bell. 1958.
Dendrochronological studies in New Zealand.
Tree-Ring Bulletin22:7-11.
Beveridge, A.
E. 1964.
Dispersal and destruction of seed in central North Island podocarp forests.
Proceedings of the New Zealand .
Tall, slow-growing forest trees up to 30 m tall and 200 cm dbh.
Bark thick, stringy, furrowed; cast in long strips, which shroud the trunk until falling.
Leaves brownish to dark green; of juveniles ca. 2 cm × 1-2 mm; of adults 1.5-3 cm × 3-4 mm, linear-lanceolate, straight to slightly falcate, acute, pungent, coriaceous, patent, sessile by narrow b.
New Zealand: N & S Islands, in lowland, montane and lower subalpine forest at 0-480(-600) m elevation (Allan 1961, Salmon 1996).
The variety waihoensisoccurs on the west coast of the South Island, from about the Waiho River south to the Cascades (New Zealand Plant Conservation Network 2010).
Based on data from 431 collection localities, its climate.
Aboriginal use: "One of the largest trees in the forest, its timber was prized by Maori as being the best for building their massive war canoes, and was also the main timber used for carving.
Until more recent times it was also valued for bridge and wharf construction, as well as a wide variety of other uses .
Ancient Maori custom demanded that w.
This species is common and well-known in New Zealand, and is among the most popular of ornamental trees, besides which it readily establishes in pasture land.
It may be the most popular New Zealand conifer planted in warm temperate areas around the world.
The Pureora Forest Park area, as described above under "Big Tree," has the largest known totar.
The totara is the largest known tree in the Podocarpaceae.
A tree called Pouakani, near Mangapehi in King Country, Southern Waikato, is 388 cm dbh and 42.7 m tall, with an estimated wood volume of 203.7 m3.
This tree is well known.
Note that a sign located at the base of the tree provides incorrect height, girth and wood volume information.
The tre.
Syn: P. totara D.
Don ex Hook. 1842; Nageia totara (G.
Benn. ex D.
Don) F.
Muell. 1876 (Farjon 1998).
There is a natural hybrid with P. totara, Podocarpus × loderi Cockayne 1932.
There is also one subspecies, Podocarpus totara G.
Benn. ex D.
Don var. waihoensis Wardle 1972, not recognized by some authors, thought to have originated as a hybrid betw.
