Native plant identification

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Always gotta have a sock or a gumboot in the pic if it's any good :)

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Originally Posted by Dougie

Always gotta have a sock or a gumboot in the pic if it's any good :)

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Well you wouldn't want to stick your bare foot on that lot Dougie.

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Originally Posted by ebf

awesome, keep it up guys

updated list:


Deer food:

Broadleaf / Kapuka / Griselinia littoralis
Bushmans Friend / Rangiora / Brachyglottis repanda
Five Finger / Whauwhaupaku / Pseudopanax arboreus
Seven Finger / Pate / Schefflera digitata
Whiteywood / Mahoe / Melicytus ramiflorus

Nasty

Bushmans Lawer / Onga Onga / Urtica Ferox
Cutty grass / Toetoe / Austroderia
Gorse / ??? / Ulex europaeus
??? / Tutu / Coriaria arborea

Useful / Medicinal

Dock / ??? / ??? - treatment for Onga Onga sting
Flax / Harakeke / Phormium colensoi & tenax - pulp of leaves & roots, heated, use for infections and boils
Pepper Tree / Kawa Kawa / Macropiper excelsum - toothache, upset tummy
??? / Horopito / Pseudowintera colorata - leaves & tender branches steeped, use for chafing, wounds, bruises, cuts
??? / Koromiko / ???
??? / Kowhai / ???
??? / Manuka / ??? - leaves made into tea for fever, ash for dandruff
??? / Rata / ???

Edible (human)

Black tree fern / Mamaku / Cyathea medullaris
Fern root / Aruhe / Pteridium esculentum - carbohydrate, root cooked, then beaten to remove hard outer skin
??? / Hinau / Elaeocarpus dentatus
??? / Kiekie / Freycinetia banksii
??? / Tawa / Beilschmiedia tawa

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Great Thread would be awesome if all you budding botanist could post some pictures up as well would be appreciated by alot of ppl on here.

I found some young onga onga today!! :D :D hahaa...muppet...

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Originally Posted by Dougie

I found some young onga onga today!! :D :D hahaa...muppet...

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Yup, but only after you touched it !!! Better to Identify it before touching :D

Dougie also found some Horopito for me to taste. HOLY CRAP it's hot...

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Originally Posted by ebf

Yup, but only after you touched it !!! Better to Identify it before touching :D

Dougie also found some Horopito for me to taste. HOLY CRAP it's hot...

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Horopito is good shit. My bush Spag Bol's have chopped up Horopito in them.

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Originally Posted by ebf

Yup, but only after you touched it !!! Better to Identify it before touching :D

Dougie also found some Horopito for me to taste. HOLY CRAP it's hot...

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Hehehe, good trick huh! Pull that one on your not-mates another time. Or better yet, one of those fat americans that is looking for the "Deer Xing"....... ;)

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Originally Posted by ebf

Yup, but only after you touched it !!! Better to Identify it before touching :D

Dougie also found some Horopito for me to taste. HOLY CRAP it's hot...

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Thats the pepper wood tree?

Yep the green leaf with sort of red colour 'bleeding' from the edges.

Koromiko Hebe stricta

http://motuihe.org.nz/motuihe/imgUpl...20&%20Seed.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XObY6bo2hF...0/P1050881.JPG

We used this to sort the white scours in calves ,by boiling the leaves until the water turned light green,
strained off the leaf material & added the water into the calf milk.

Good thread this is. I know what most of our wild animals eat and browse but apart from a couple things have know idea what they are called.:thumbsup:

they would walk past all that native stuff for a feed of fat juicey turnip leaves thats for sure.:P

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Originally Posted by sakokid

they would walk past all that native stuff for a feed of fat juicey turnip leaves thats for sure.:P

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Might help if it rained thou:P

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Originally Posted by mucko

deer eat a bit of Rangiora up the back of my place

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I could've sworn Rangiora was a small North Canterbury town. Do these deer eat people or just buildings?:D