Totara

The track, a seldom-used blazed trail, led steeply up the north side of the valley through thick silver beech forest with little understorey and a scattering of totara. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia) and totara (Podocarpus totara) were also abundant in these areas but are now restricted to two main remnants (totaling 6 km2) in the Waiho and Whataroa Valleys. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Tall podocarp trees (rimu, miro, Hall's totara) then succeed and the end point of this sequence can be found on the higher glacial outwash surfaces (around 25,000 years old); here the extremely leached, infertile soils can only support a stunted heath and bog vegetation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Possums have caused the widespread death of kamahi and rata in lowland forests and the death of kaikawaka (Libocedrus bidwillii) and Hall's totara (Podocarpus hallii) in the southern ranges. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A small number may have developed from remnant populations of endemic cold-tolerant plants (for example, the snow totara (Podocarpus nivalis)). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The common podocarps are: rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), thin-barked totara (Podocarpus hallii), miro (Prumnopitys ferruginea), and kohekoe (Dysoxylum spectabile). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Prior to human arrival the drier central regions of Otago probably had a cover of low conifer-broadleaf forest made up of species like mountain toatoa (Phyllocladus alpinus), Hall's totara (Podocarpus hallii), broadleaf (Griselinia littoralis), and kanuka (Kunzea ericoides). ❋ Unknown (2007)

The foothills from north to south were covered in beech forest (Nothofagus spp.), while the plains were covered with mixed beech-podocarp forest dominated by matai (Prumnoptitys taxifolia) and totara (Podocarpus totara). ❋ Unknown (2007)

An icy sweat broke out on his body as he careened down a hill, scraping his back on the serrated trunk of a totara tree. ❋ Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- (1993)

There are traces all over the hills of vast forests having once existed; chiefly of totara, a sort of red pine, and those about us are scattered with huge logs of this valuable wood, all bearing traces of the action of fire; but shepherds, and explorers on expeditions, looking for country, have gradually consumed them for fuel, till not many pieces remain except on the highest and most inaccessible ranges. ❋ Unknown (1871)

The next step was to collect wood for a fire, which was not difficult, for at some distant time the whole of the hill must have been covered by a forest of totara trees; it has apparently been destroyed by fire, for the huge trunks and branches which still strew the steep sides are charred and half burnt. ❋ Unknown (1871)

It is singular that while this district is the only place in New Zealand where the kauri-trees are found, nearly every other species of tree native to the country is also found here, among them the rimu, the matai, the white pine, the tooth-leaved beech, and the totara, all in close proximity to the kauri. ❋ Maturin Murray Ballou (1857)

I had the brie, farmhouse (nz cheese), totara tasty cheddar, creamy havarti, monte cristo (sheep milk), and highland blue. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Auckland, 28 April 2010 Better river management plans, extending bans on shellfish collection, planting more totara forests and implementing rat control programmes to help save endangered native skinks are just some of the recommendations to come from the ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the other side is a bigger variety, everything from korokia and ake ake to young totara and kahikatea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The giant kahikatea, miro, totara, matai and rimu still standing untouched in the park today bear testimony to the dispute and in part at least to Bellamy's efforts to wedge himself in the thick of things. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rosey and Janine emerged from a grove of totara trees near the river and crept slowly towards us, across grass that had been mown and sprinkled with petals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That led, he says, to the unearthing of an eroding oval wooden structure that has now been confirmed as being made from both local totara and adzed timber from elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The stunning piece is finished with a totara frame designed and carved by Arekatera Maihi, ❋ Unknown (2009)