All native plant pages
Below you'll find more than a dozen new native plant pages that have been added to the DOC website.
A very special and unusual group of plants occupies the harsh alpine zone of New Zealand’s rugged mountains.
Find out about New Zealand’s beech forests – the largest remaining indigenous forest type in New Zealand.
The cabbage tree is one of the most distinctive trees in the New Zealand landscape, especially on farms. They grow all over the country, but prefer wet, open areas like swamps.
The threatened Chatham Island forget-me-not, a much loved, stunning garden plant, grows naturally on the Chatham Islands - on coastal cliffs, rock outcrops and sandy and rocky beaches.
Find out about the many plants that grow on the Chatham Islands, both native and introduced.
New Zealand has an unusually high number of fern species for a temperate country and about 40 per cent of these species occur nowhere else in the world.
Lancewood, or horoeka, is a unique, small tree with lance-like foliage that changes dramatically as the tree matures.
Although mānuka/kāhikatoa and kānuka have a superficial similarity and are collectively known as ‘tea trees’ they are genetically very distinct from each other.
Matagouri, or wild Irishman as it is sometimes called, is a thorny bush or small tree that can grow up to six metres high.
The Mount Cook lily is in fact not a lily at all. Learn more about one of New Zealand’s most well known alpine plants.
The nīkau palm is the southernmost member of the palm family and New Zealand's only native palm species.
Commonly referred to as New Zealand cedars, pāhautea and another species kaikawaka or kawaka, are not true cedars at all.
Olearia Hectorii is one of the most threatenened members of New Zealand's rare, eight-species oleria or small-leaved tree daisy family.
Podocarp trees, such as rimu, kahikatea, miro, mataī and tōtara, boast a lineage that stretches back to the time when New Zealand was part of the super continent of Gondwana.