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Māori name tawa
Beilschmiedia tawa

About
Beilschmiedia tawa, commonly known as the Māori name tawa, is a New Zealand broadleaf tree common in the central parts of the country. Tawa is often the dominant canopy tree species in lowland forests in the North Island and the north east of the South Island, but will also often form the subcanopy in primary forests throughout the country in these areas, beneath podocarps such as kahikatea, mataī, miro and rimu. Individual specimens may grow up to 30 m (98 ft) or more in height, with trunks up to 1.2 m in diameter, and they have smooth dark bark.
- Family
- Lauraceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Beilschmiedia tawa
- Slug
- beilschmiedia-tawa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Lauraceae
- Genus
- Beilschmiedia
- Species
- tawa
- Wikidata QID
- Q1955922
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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