Thread: Native plant identification

EBF...whitey wood; mahoe (in these parts) boil the tip leaves...taste like cabbage...

you call it stinkwood, here it is called stinking coprosma (only stinks when the foliage has wilted...smells like faecal matter)

Dougie wrote...
Sorry slight off topic and this can be tidied up later, but has anyone seen that program (perhaps it was just the one episode?) about NZ 'native' birds and the whole Gwandana land / Zealandia / New Zealand movement of land etc..? It was really interesting but I wish they had a similar thing for plants!! It was about the evolution of birds and how for example the Kiwi actually started in Aussy.

Not possible, Dougie, no Kiwi started in Australia, I will not have it

Then you have the vegetation on Campbell's Island...unbelievable...try the book Campbell Island - Land of the Blue Sunflower by Derek Fell, published by Bateman.