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About LinkBacksI'm keen to increase my practical plant id skills. In broad terms, I want to work on a list of 5-10 of the most important plants in the following categories:
Deer food:Seven Finger / Pate / Schefflera digitataNasty
Five Finger / Whauwhaupaku / Pseudopanax arboreus
NZ Broadleaf / Kapuka / Griselinia littoralis
Gorse / ??? / Ulex europaeusUsefull / Medicinal
Bushmans Lawer / Onga Onga / Urtica Ferox
??? / Tutu / Coriaria arborea
Cutty grass / Toetoe / Austroderia
Dock / ??? / ???Edible (human)
??? / Kawa Kawa / ???
Fern root / Aruhe / ???
??? / Hinau / Elaeocarpus dentatus
??? / Tawa / Beilschmiedia tawa
??? / Kiekie / Freycinetia banksii
Black tree fern / Mamaku / Cyathea medullaris
Pls help me flesh out the lists...
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09-12-2012, 10:40 AM #1Mushroom juice ! Hic !
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Native plant identification
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09-12-2012, 10:42 AM #2A Good Keen Girl
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Pepper plant....
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09-12-2012, 10:45 AM #3Mushroom juice ! Hic !
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Dougie, you mean Kawa Kawa right ? Is that the "English" name ?
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09-12-2012, 10:50 AM #4A Good Keen Girl
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Might be. It's edible, looks like a spotty red and green leaf on shrubby bushes, can be big but usually only sort of 1sm at largest. Chew on the lovely leaves and have a burning mouth for a few minutes! Like a mouth full of pepper.
EDIT it's not the same thing, still can't find the other name for pepper plant.She loves the free fresh wind in her hair; Life without care. She's broke but it's oke; that's why the lady is a tramp.
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09-12-2012, 10:54 AM #5A Good Keen Girl
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I think the plant I am talking about is Horopito. Not sure if it's actually good for anything other than pranking your mates
oneshot likes this.She loves the free fresh wind in her hair; Life without care. She's broke but it's oke; that's why the lady is a tramp.
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09-12-2012, 10:59 AM #6Mushroom juice ! Hic !
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naa, kawa kawa is heart shaped green leaves with lots of holes in them from where the kawakawa looper has eaten it. the moe holes, the spicier it is. good for toothache and upset tummy. also burn wet leaves as insecticide and sandfly repellant. very cool plant.
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09-12-2012, 11:20 AM #7Village Idjit
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Horopito can be used to give a pepper type taste to food. Have used it on trips. Use SPARINGLY!
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09-12-2012, 11:28 AM #8A Good Keen Girl
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It's used for quite a few other medicinal purposes, google tells me
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09-12-2012, 06:57 PM #9Member
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Might want to add Koromiko & Manuka to the medical list .
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09-12-2012, 07:06 PM #10Member
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nice thread,look forward to this one going for a while and learning
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09-12-2012, 07:49 PM #11Member
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1 for the deer food list is Mahoe . Deer go crazy on it after the roar & at other times of year .Seems there is something in it they need after ,weather a tonic or a mineral /trace element in it.
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Kawakawa = Macropiper excelsum
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09-12-2012, 08:16 PM #13Member
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Horopito = Pseudowintera colorata
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09-12-2012, 08:18 PM #14Member
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Aruhe or fern root, the rhizome of bracken fern = Pteridium esculentum
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deer eat a bit of Rangiora up the back of my place
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