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Harakeke
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New Zealand Flax, known by the Māori names Harakeke. Flax bushes will often support a large community of animals, providing shelter and an abundant food resource.
Although the Māori made textiles from a number of other plants, the use of harakeke and wharariki was predominant.
For centuries, Māori have used Harakeke for medicinal purposes, as a mild anaesthetic, poultice for boils, tumours, as well as to varicose ulcers. It also use as disinfectant and abscesses, relieve constipation, expel worms. The gum-like sap produced by Harakeke contains enzymes that give it blood clotting and antiseptic qualities to help healing processes.
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Harakeke – card
$5.00 Add to cartHarakeke print on greeting blank card with a white envelope.
Size: 105mm x 148mm (A6)
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Kauri – card
$5.00 Add to cartKauri print on greeting blank card with a white envelope.
Size: 105mm x 148mm (A6)
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Kea – card
$5.00 Add to cartKea print on greeting blank card with a white envelope.
Size: 105mm x 148mm (A6)
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Kiwi – card
$5.00 Add to cartKiwi print on greeting blank card with a white envelope.
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Kōpukapuka
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The Mount Cook Lily or Kōpukapuka is in fact not a lily at all. It belongs to the buttercup family. The Mount Cook Lily is one of New Zealand’s most well known alpine plants.
It grows in sub-alpine to alpine herbfields in the South Island mountains from 700m to 1500m in altitude. It is well adapted to grow in infertile soils and it favours stream banks and damp locations in scrub and grasslands.
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Nīkau
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The Nīkau is a palm tree endemic to New Zealand, and the only palm native to New Zealand. It primarily occurs in coastal to lowland forest in warmer regions.
Nīkau palms have had importance in Mäori life. The leaves were used to thatch houses, to wrap food before cooking, and to weave into hats, mats, baskets, and leggings for travelling through rough undergrowth.
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Piwakawaka – card
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Pōhutukawa (2017)
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The Pōhutukawa tree, the iconic Kiwi Christmas tree, which often features on greeting cards and in poems and songs, has become an important symbol for New Zealanders at home and abroad.
Renowned for its vibrant colour and its ability to survive even perched on rocky, precarious cliffs, it has found an important place in New Zealand culture for its strength and beauty.
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Pōhutukawa – card
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Ponga
Silver Fern or Ponga is a species of medium-sized tree fern, endemic to New Zealand. Its fronds have a distinctive silver underside. Māori laid them silver-side up as track markers for night walking. The koru symbol is inspired by the shape of an unfurling silver fern frond.
The earliest use of the silver fern as an official national symbol was by the New Zealand Army during the Second Boer War. Since then the fern has become one of the most widely recognised symbols of New Zealand.
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Ponga – card
$5.00 Add to cartPonga print on greeting blank card with a white envelope.
Size: 105mm x 148mm (A6)
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Pūkeko – card
$5.00 Add to cartPūkeko print on greeting blank card with a white envelope.
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Takahe – card
$5.00 Add to cartTakahe print on greeting blank card with a white envelope.
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Tī Kōuka
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The Cabbage Tree or Tī Kōuka is one of the most distinctive trees in the New Zealand landscape. It has lovely scented flowers in early summer, which turn into bluish-white berries that birds love to eat.
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Tī Kōuka – card
$5.00 Add to cartTī Kōuka print on greeting blank card with a white envelope.
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Tui – card
$5.00 Add to cartTui print on greeting blank card with a white envelope.
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Wētā
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Weta is the name given to about 70 insect species endemic to New Zealand. The name comes from the Māori word ‘Wētā’ and is the same in the plural (like ‘sheep’). The Māori word for the giant weta is ‘Wētā Punga’. There are five broad groups of Weta: Tree Weta, Ground Weta, Cave Weta, Giant Weta, Tusked Weta, Tree Weta are those most commonly encountered in suburban settings in the North Island.
