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Queensland kauri is a large conifer native to Australia and New Guinea. It has been sparingly planted in Hawaii as an ornamental and occasionally as a plantation species, along with Agathis australis (New Zealand kauri) and Agathis vitiensis (Fiji or Pacific kauri). The species has a low Weed Risk Assessment of -5 (www.PlantPono.org). A logging industry developed in New Zealand logging these trees for timber. The sap of Agathis spp., called damar or copal resin, is used for making varnish. University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii.
This is'Tane Mahuta' the biggest kauri tree in New Zealand with an estimated age of 1200 years and a girth of 14 metres.
Tāne Mahuta is a giant kauri tree in the Waipoua Forest of Northland Region, New Zealand.
The tree's Māori name means "Lord of the Forest" (see Tāne), and is the name of a god in the Māori pantheon. Tāne Mahuta is the most massive kauri known to stand today. It is 51 metres (169 feet) in height, and has a circumference of 13.8 metres (45 feet). There is no proof of the tree's age, but it is estimated to be between 1250 and 2500 years old.
Tane Mahuta has the following measurements:[1]
Trunk Girth 13.77 m, Trunk Height 17.68 m, Total Height 51.2 m, Trunk Volume 244.5 m3.
The tree is a remnant of the ancient subtropical rainforest that once grew on the North Auckland Peninsula. Other giant kauri stand nearby, notably Te Matua Ngahere. It is the most famous tree in New Zealand and the oldest. It is thought this tree was discovered and identified in the 1920’s when contracted surveyors surveyed the present road State Highway 12 through the forest. In 1928 Nicholas Yakas and other Bushmen, which were building the road, also identified the tree.
According to Maori mythology Tane is the son of Ranginui the sky father and Papatuanuku the earth mother. Tane was the child that tore his parent’s parental embrace and once done set about clothing his mother in the forest we have here today. All living creatures of the forest are regarded as Tane’s children
This is a Kauri tree -- one of the few remaining groves (if a handful of trees constitutes a grove) of old-growth trees on the Coromandel Peninsula. It's in the mountainous interior, a short hike off a dirt road. The entire peninsula used to be covered with forest like this, but it was heavily logged in the 19th & early 20th centuries. These trees grow to be huge. This was the biggest local example, but up north in NZ there are even bigger ones. The trunks are as big as California Coast Redwoods, but the crowns are more like those of Giant Sequoias, with branches that are themselves the size of large trees.
Although the size and branch structure reminded me of the Sequoia, I had (wrongly) assumed, on the basis of the flat leaves, that these were deciduous trees. I was surprised to find out that they were ancient conifers, of a family widespread during the Jurassic but now surviving only on Pacific and Southeast Asia islands and northern Australia
The forest in Trounson Kauri Park Scenic Reserve are considered "inland islands". It is an intact forest completely surrounded by pasture. It is an amazing thing to see. For more information: www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/trounson-kauri-park
‘Gold fever’ struck northern New Zealand in the late 1800s. with 20,000 fortune-hunters spread across some 800,000 acres of land. What they were seeking was not metallic gold, but kauri gum: a rich golden resin which polishes up like glass and is one of this country’s most beautiful natural products.
The kauri tree is Mother Nature's perfect tree. It goes up and up and out and out with no branches for quite a long way (no knots in the wood) and very little taper.
If you are looking for timber to make giant masts without splices or even fancy furniture, you probably want to do what early New Zealand settlers did, which is to chop down huge virgin forests of kauri trees. Now just a few of the oldest trees are still left standing.
My children, seen here, are planning to defend this one of them.
More than half kilo of copal. Contain insects. This copal actually originated from ancient philippinos kauri tree.
Queensland kauri is a large conifer native to Australia and New Guinea. It has been sparingly planted in Hawaii as an ornamental and occasionally as a plantation species, along with Agathis australis (New Zealand kauri) and Agathis vitiensis (Fiji or Pacific kauri). The species has a low Weed Risk Assessment of -5 (www.PlantPono.org). A logging industry developed in New Zealand logging these trees for timber. The sap of Agathis spp., called damar or copal resin, is used for making varnish. Honokaa, Hawaii Island, Hawaii.
The forest in Trounson Kauri Park Scenic Reserve are considered "inland islands". It is an intact forest completely surrounded by pasture. It is an amazing thing to see. For more information: www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/trounson-kauri-park
The forest in Trounson Kauri Park Scenic Reserve are considered "inland islands". It is an intact forest completely surrounded by pasture. It is an amazing thing to see. For more information: www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/trounson-kauri-park