Agathis Species, New Zealand Kauri (Agathis australis)

by palmbob Oct 21, 2010 4:59 PM

New Zealand Kauri in New Zealand, January 1991

The trunk of the second largest New Zealand Kauri, known as Te Matua Ngahere, Father of the Forest. It had a height of 29.9 m, a girth of 16.4 m and the trunk height was 10.2 m when I was in New Zealand in January 1991

The crown of the second largest New Zealand Kauri, known as Te Matua Ngahere, Father of the Forest. It had a height of 29.9 m, a girth of 16.4 m and the trunk height was 10.2 m when I was in New Zealand in January 1991

The crown of the largest New Zealand Kauri, known as Tane Mahuta, Lord of the Forest. It had a height of 51.5 m, a girth of 13.8 m and the trunk height was 17.7 m when I was in New Zealand in January 1991. It is estimated to be more than 1200 years old.

Leaves of New Zealand Kauri, in New Zealand, January 1991

The cone

In Pollard Park Blenheim New Zealand

southern California seedling in Huntington Gardens

trunk of sapling

University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley

Twin Kauri near Tairua on the Coromandel Peninsula

A Kauri on a private street frontage in Waihi

Looking up into its branches

And high up into the Kauri

Kauri in their natural habitat

Twin Kauri cones

A Kauri tree with a 3 metre diameter girth on a private property in Paeroa

Detail of the 3 metre diameter girth of this Paeroa Kauri

The crown shape of this older Paeroa Kauri

UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens, northern California, zone 10

Tāne Mahuta the largest one known is between�1,250 and 2,500 years old in�Waipoua Forest�of�Northland Region,�New Zealand, Copyright Karl Gercens.of Longwood Gardens.�http://www.karlgercens.com/

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