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8.0 Appendices Environmental Reserves Management Plan 2011 8.0 APPENDICES 8.1 SUMMARY OF ALL ENVIRONMENTAL RESERVES PARK NAME ADDRESS LOCATION AREA (HA) CLASSIFICATION/ STATUS Bluff Hill Area Bluff Hill Bluff 85.0848 Part Freehold, Part Local Purpose-Quarry, Part Water Works Bluff Hill Reserve 13-107, 14 - 107, Bluff 78.0664 Scenic s.19(1)(a) 22-107 Shannon Street Bowman's Bush 35 Ruru Avenue Otatara 1.2813 QEII Trust Covenant Esplanade Reserve - 69 Beaconsfield Invercargill 0.7565 Local Purpose Beaconsfield Road Road (Esplanade) Esplanade Reserve - Colyers 217 Colyers Island Greenhills 0.4650 Local Purpose Island Road (Esplanade) Esplanade Reserve - Forde 54A Forde Road Invercargill 0.6070 Local Purpose Road (Esplanade) Esplanade Reserve - Liddel 21 & 25 Liddel Invercargill 0.0693 Local Purpose Street Street (Esplanade) Esplanade Reserve - McIvor 283E McIvor Road Invercargill 0.2933 Local Purpose Road (Esplanade) Esplanade Reserve - Mersey 173 Mersey Street Invercargill 0.0789 Local Purpose Street (Esplanade) Esplanade Reserve - Mill 150 Mill Road Invercargill 0.6643 Local Purpose Road North (Esplanade) Esplanade Reserve - Ocean 242 Ocean Beach Bluff 0.0420 Local Purpose Beach Road (Esplanade) Esplanade Reserve - 153 Oteramika Oteramika 1.2860 Local Purpose Oteramika Road Road (Esplanade) Esplanade Reserve - 680 - 688 Waihopai Invercargill 0.4240 Local Purpose Racecourse Road River (Esplanade) Esplanade Reserve - Short 250 Renfrew Street Invercargill 0.8900 Local Purpose Road (Esplanade) Esplanade Reserve - Stirling 33 - 38 Ward Bluff 1.2127 Local Purpose Point Parade (Esplanade) Esplanade Reserve - 781 Waihopai River Invercargill 2.2900 Local Purpose Waihopai River (Esplanade) Grant Road Reserve 123 Grant Road Otatara 0.5174 Recreation Greenpoint Recreation 2392 Bluff Highway Bluff 12.9714 Recreation Reserve Joeys Island 202 Joeys Island Awarua Bay 11.4324 Scenic s.19(1)(b) John Street Reserve 9 John Street Otatara 1.2087 Recreation Lake Hawkins Wetland 1 Airport Avenue Invercargill 54.8792 Recreation Reserve Matua Road Reserve 33 Matua Road Otatara 0.5013 Recreation Metcalf Bush Reserve Mason Road & 56 Invercargill 14.1890 Scenic / QEII Trust McKellar Road Covenant Omaui Reserve 221 Mokomoko Omaui 14.2730 Scenic Road 8.0 Appendices 175 Environmental Reserves Management Plan 2011 PARK NAME ADDRESS LOCATION AREA (HA) CLASSIFICATION/ STATUS Otatara Scenic Reserve 104 Dunns Road Otatara 41.9203 Scenic Parnell Sanctuary 38 Ariki Avenue Otatara 2.0015 Scenic Paterson Reserve 34 Spence Avenue Otatara 0.3440 Local Purpose Red Tussock Reserve 119 Rockdale Road Invercargill 1.3499 Scenic s.19 (1) (b) Sandy Point Domain Dunns Road Otatara 2072.2786 Recreation Seaward Bush 166 Mason Road Invercargill 107.8933 Scenic Stead Street Beautification 113 Stead Street Invercargill 0.5260 Endowment for Strip Municipal Purposes Stirling Point Reserve 4A Ward Parade Bluff 9.1464 - Taiepa Dune Reserve (a) 31 and 33 Raeburn Otatara 0.8400 Scenic Avenue. Taiepa Dune Reserve (b) 83 Taiepa Road. Otatara 2.5500 Recreation Thomsons Bush 584 Queens Drive Invercargill 33.5015 Recreation Tikore / Spencer Island 200 Tikore Island Greenpoint, 19.0202 Scenic s.19(1)(a) Bluff Waihopai Bridge Reserve 574 Queens Drive Invercargill 0.2194 Recreation Total environmental reserves = 36 (2575.0750 hectares) 8.2 LIST OF PLANT NAMES USED IN THE TEXT * = Exotic (introduced) plant Botanical Name Common Name Aceana anserinifolia Bidibidi Aceana novae-zealandiae Bidibidi * Acer pseudoplatanus Sycamore * Agrostis stolonifera Creeping bent * Agrostis tenuis Browntop * Anthroxanthum odoratum Sweet vernal Apium australe New Zealand Celery Aristotelia serrata Wineberry or Mako Asplenium bulbiferum Hen and chicken fern or mauku Asplenium falcatum Drooping spleenwort Asplenium flaccidum Hanging spleenwort or Raukatauri Asplenium lyalli Lyall's Spleenwort Asplenium obtusatum Shore Spleenwort Astelia fragrans Bush Lily or Kakaha Astelia spp. Perching Lily * Berberis darwinii Darwin's barberry * Betula pendula Silver Birch Blechnum banksii Salt spray fern/Shore fern Blechnum capense Native kiokio fern Blechnum discolor Crown fern or Piupiu Blechnum duram Coastal hard fern Blechnum fluviatile Kiwakiwa 8.0 Appendices 176 Environmental Reserves Management Plan 2011 Botanical Name Common Name Blechnum lanceolatum Fern Blechnum minus Swamp kiokio Blechnum penna marina Alpine hard fern Blechnum procerum Fern/small kiokio Blechnum sp. 'brown scale' Common hard fern Blechnum species no. 1 Kiokio Callitriche stagnalis Pond water –starwort * Calystegia silvatica Convolvulus Calystegia tuguriorum Native bindweed Carex genus Tussock Carex coriacea Cutty grass Carex secta Pukio Carpodetus serratus Marbleleaf or Putaputaweta Cassinia vauvilliersii Cottonwood Centella uniflora Angiosperm/flowering plant * Cerastium glomeratum Sticky chickweed Chionochloa rubra Red tussock Chionochloa genus Tussock * Cirsium arvense Californian thistle * Cirsium lanceolatum Scotch or spear thistle * Cirsium vulgare Scotch thistle Clematis paniculata Puawhananga/Clematis Clematis vitalba Old Man’s Beard Colobanthus sp. Cushion plant Conium maculatum Hemlock * Convolvulus Field bindweed Coprosma areolata Small leaved shrub Coprosma colensoi Stinkwood/karamu Coprosma foetidissima Stinkwood Coprosma grandiflora Kanono Coprosma lucida Glossy karamu/karanga Coprosma parviflora Small leaved shrub Coprosma propinqua Mingimingi Coprosma rhamnoides Divaricating native shrub Coprosma rotundifolia Round leaved coprosma Cordyline australis Cabbage tree or Ti Coriaria sarmentosa Tutu Cortaderia richardii Toetoe * Cotoneaster siminsii Cotoneaster Cotula spp Water button/button weed * Crataegus monogyna Hawthorn * Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora Montbretia * Cupressus macrocarpa Monterey cypress * Cupressocyparis leylandii Leyland cypress Cyathea smithii wheki Cyathodes empetrifolia Prickly mingimingi Cyathodes fraseri Shrub Cyathodes juniperina Prickly mingimingi Cythea smithii Soft tree fern 8.0 Appendices 177 Environmental Reserves Management Plan 2011 Botanical Name Common Name * Cytisus scoparius Broom Dacrycarpus dacrydioides Kahikatea/White Pine Dacrydium cupressinum Red Pine or Rimu * Daphne laureola Spurge-laurel Dicksonia fibrosa Ponga Dicksonia squarrosa Tree fern or Wheki * Digitalis purpurea Foxglove Dracophyllum longifolium Inaka / Inanga Elaeocarpus hookerianus Pokaka Eleocharis minus Club rush Epilobium alsinoides Willowherb Epilobium ciliatum Willow Herb Erechtites minima Coastal burnweed * Eucalyptus spp. Eucalyptus Festuca genus Tussock Fuchsia excorticata Tree fuchsia or Kotukutuku Fuchsia perscandens Climbing fuchsia Gahnia sp. Saw-sedge Galega officinalis Goat’s rue Galeobdolon luteum Aluminium/Artillery Plant Galium propinquim Mawe Gaultheria antipoda Snowberry Gentiana saxosa Shore gentian Gleichenia dicarpa Swamp umbrella fern Gnaphalium hookeri Shrub Grammitis magellanica sp. nothofageti Fern * Grasses English Grass Griselinia littoralis Broadleaf or Kapuka Hebe elliptica Kokomuka Hebe salicifolia Koromiko * Hedera helix Ivy Helichrysum filicaule Sub-alpine herb Hierochloe redolens Holy Grass Histiopteris incisa Water fern * Holcus lanatus Yorkshire fog * Hydrangea spp. Hydrangea Hydrocotyle americana Water-pennywort Hydrocotyle heteromeria Pennywort or hydrocotyle Hydrocotyle novae-selandiae Water pennywort Hymenanthera alpina Evergreen woody shrub Hymenophyllum bivalve Filmy fern Hymenophyllum demissum Drooping filmy fern Hymenophyllum dilatatum Filmy fern Hymenophyllum flabellatum Filmy fern Hymenophyllum rarum Filmy fern Hymenophyllum revolutum Filmy fern Hymenophyllum sanguim lentum Filmy fern * Hypochaeris radicata Catsear Hypolepis ambigua Fern 8.0 Appendices 178 Environmental Reserves Management Plan 2011 Botanical Name Common Name Hypolepis distans Scrambling Ground Fern Hypolepis rufobarbata Fern Hypolepis tenuifolia Pressed Fern * Ilex aquifolium Holly * Juncus articulatus Jointed rush * Juncus bufonius Toad rush Juncus spp. Rush Leptopteris hymenophylloides Crepe fern Leptospermum scoparium Tea tree or Manuka Leptocarpus similis Jointed wire rush or oioi Loranthus micranthus Mistletoe * Lotus corniculatus Bird’s- foot- trefoil * Lotus pedunculatus Lotus grass * Lupinus spp. Lupin Luzuriaga parviflora Lanternberry plant Lycopodium varium Hanging clubmoss Macropiper excelsum Peppertree/Kawakawa Melicytus lanceolatus Mahoewao Melicytus ramiflorus Whiteywood or Mahoe-wao Metrosideros diffusa Climbing rata or Akatea Metrosideros umbellata Ironwood or (Southern) Rata * Mimulus moschatus Muskflower Moss spp Moss Muehlenbeckia australis Pohuehue Muehlenbeckia complexa Pohuehue * Mycelis muralis Wall’s Lettuce Myosotis sp. Mouse ear/forget-me-not Myosotis rakiura Mouse ear/forget-me-not Myriophyllum propinquum Water milfoil Myrsine australis Red Mapou or Matipo Myrsine divaricata Weeping matipo Neomyrtus pedunculata Rohutu Nertera depressa Bead Plant Nertera dichondrifolia Creeping ground cover Nothofagus fusca NZ Red Beech Olearia arborescens Tree daisy Olearia colensoi Leatherwood or Tupare Olearia nummularifolia Shrub daisy Pernettya macrostigma Chamaephytic shrub Parsonsia capularis Native Jasmine or Akakiore Parsonsia heterophylla NZ Jasmine or kaihua * Pasture grass' sp Pasture grass Patellaea rotundifolia Button Fern Pennantia corymbosa Kaikomako Pernettya macrostigma Chamaephytic shrub Phormium tenax Flax or Harakeke Phyllocladus alpinus Mountain toa toa Phymatosorus diversifolius Hounds tongue fern or Kowaowao Pimelea lyallii Southern sand daphne 8.0 Appendices 179 Environmental Reserves Management Plan
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