Plant List Taumarunui Ohakune

This list contains suitable plants for the Lower Eastern Ecological Area. The list includes information on suitable habitat for each species and their environmental tolerances.

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NAME HEIGHT SUITABLE HABITATS SOIL MOISTURE TOLERANCES/PALATABILITY ENCOURAGES Wanganui

Common name Species name Height at Wetland Riparian Bush Slope/ Wet Damp Free Frost Wind Possum Birds Bees Palmerston maturity Open draining tolerance tolerance palatability Marton North City Dannevirke

NARROW LEAVED GROUND COVER

Flax, Harakeke Phormium tenax 2.5m         Foxton Levin Eketahuna Mtn Flax, Phormium 1.5m Wharariki cookianum       Purei Carex secta 1.5m       Swamp sedge Carex virgata 1m        Toetoe Cortaderia fulvida 1.5m      

SHRUBS

Coastal Olearia solandri 3m shrub daisy         Karamu Coprosma robusta 4m         Koromiko Hebe stricta 2m        

Manuka Leptospermum 6m scoparium         

TREES

Cabbage tree, Native Plants for Cordyline australis 12m Ti kouka          

Five-finger Pseudopanax 8m           arboreus Riparian Margins Kanuka Kunzea ericoides 20m       

Kohuhu Pittosporum 8m          tenuifolium Lower Eastern Ecological Area Kowhai Sophora 25m microphylla         

Kowhai Sophora 15m tetraptera         

Lemonwood, Pittosporum 12m Tarata eugenioides        

Long-leaved Hoheria sexstylosa 8m lacebark         

Ribbonwood, Plagianthus regius 15m Manatu        

For further information about riparian planting contact: i Horizons Regional Council, Freshwater Management Team 0508 800 800 | www.horizons.govt.nz 2014/646 Shrubs Narrow leaved ground cover for Riparian Marginsfor Riparian Native Plants Coastal shrub daisy Horizons Flax, Harakeke Coprosma robusta Swamp Sedge Phormium tenax Olearia solandri Olearia Carex virgata Karamu

Colin Ogle Horizons Leptospermum scoparium Mtn flax, Wharariki Mtn Horizons Phormium cookianum Cortaderia fulvida Cortaderia Koromiko Hebe stricta Hebe Manuka Toetoe Horizons Horizons Carex secta Purei

Trees Trees Unless otherwise indicated, all photos have provided been by Taranaki Regional Council the information sheetisaplant listwitheachspeciesenvironmental tolerances andhabitat suitability. Below are native plants suitablefor margins riparian intheLower Eastern Ecological Area. at thebackof Included Lower Eastern Ecological Area John Barkla Long-leaved Lacebark Pittosporum tenuifolium Hoheria sexstylosa Sophora tetraptera Cordyline australis Cabbage Tree Kohuhu Kowhai John Barkla Pittosporum eugenioides Peudopanax arboreus Sophora microphylla Plagianthus regius Ribbonwood Lemonwood Five-finger Kowhai Kunzea ericoides Kanuka