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    Always gotta have a sock or a gumboot in the pic if it's any good
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Dougie View Post
    Always gotta have a sock or a gumboot in the pic if it's any good
    Well you wouldn't want to stick your bare foot on that lot Dougie.
    It takes 43 muscle's to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger pull.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ebf View Post
    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


    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.

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    I found some young onga onga today!! hahaa...muppet...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dougie View Post
    I found some young onga onga today!! hahaa...muppet...
    Yup, but only after you touched it !!! Better to Identify it before touching

    Dougie also found some Horopito for me to taste. HOLY CRAP it's hot...
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    Quote Originally Posted by ebf View Post
    Yup, but only after you touched it !!! Better to Identify it before touching

    Dougie also found some Horopito for me to taste. HOLY CRAP it's hot...
    Horopito is good shit. My bush Spag Bol's have chopped up Horopito in them.
    It takes 43 muscle's to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger pull.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ebf View Post
    Yup, but only after you touched it !!! Better to Identify it before touching

    Dougie also found some Horopito for me to taste. HOLY CRAP it's hot...
    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".......
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by ebf View Post
    Yup, but only after you touched it !!! Better to Identify it before touching

    Dougie also found some Horopito for me to taste. HOLY CRAP it's hot...
    Thats the pepper wood tree?
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    Yep the green leaf with sort of red colour 'bleeding' from the edges.
    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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    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.
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    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.
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    Do what ya want! Ya will anyway.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by sakokid View Post
    they would walk past all that native stuff for a feed of fat juicey turnip leaves thats for sure.
    Might help if it rained thou
    "Thats not a knife, this is a knife"
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    Quote Originally Posted by mucko View Post
    deer eat a bit of Rangiora up the back of my place
    I could've sworn Rangiora was a small North Canterbury town. Do these deer eat people or just buildings?
    That's a whatchamacallit! Isn't it?

 

 

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