totara


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Synonyms for totara

valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves

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the ginger-haired man cuts a branch from the totara
The Totara (Scirpus californicus) in Ecuador and Peru.
It takes 500 years for native trees like New Zealand's rata, rimu and totara to get established, but in the first 10 years, birds such as little spotted kiwi (the national bird), brown teal, bellbird, native robin, scaup, weka and pigeon, as well as reptiles like the rare tuatara lizard, have been reintroduced.
As well as using native plant ingredients such as Manuka Oil, New Zealand Flax Gels and Totara, some of the range also uses Halloysite clay found only in Matauri Bay, New Zealand, for its natural exfoliating and cleansing properties.
It was dated at a time when the potential problems of inbuilt age (Anderson 1991), especially with regard to such long-lived and rot-resistant species as totara, were not well understood.
Rusty Spur West By West Goodbye Heart Totara Park Stud 3,000
Alpine totara (Podocarpus nivalis 'Green Queen' and 'Little Lady')
28[degrees]), but contains many remnant totara (Podocarpus sp.) and broadleaf (Griselinia littoralis) logs on the surface from fires started by European colonists in the 1860s.
Maungakiekie was named after a sacred totara tree which stood atop the hill until 1876, when white authorities replaced it with an exotic pine.
Cameron (1960) recorded a 36% increase in the height growth of seedlings of podocarps (mainly Dacrydium cupressinum and Podocarpus totara) following trenching of plots containing 15-30 yr-old seedlings in the North Island of New Zealand.
One Maori tale, for example, describes how the totara tree bragged that since he believed that he could stretch high enough to reach the Sky Father, he should become king of the forest.
Acts commonly alleged are: - cultivating - building a house or catching rats on the land - setting an eel-wear [sic] - cutting down a Totara tree in the forest for a canoe, etc.' (1847:49).
Species under consideration include kauri, beech, puriri, totara and rewarewa.
Gloucester, United Kingdom, April 25, 2019 --(PR.com)-- At the EMEA Totara User Conference - scheduled for Glaziers Hall in London on 15th and 16th May - Mark Edmonds, of the e-learning supplier Engage in Learning, will explain how organisations can fully automate their training programmes.