General Tree pics

[atree]

Awesome beech!

[Mark Bolam]

Red Beech Drew, it's on the Lake Rotopounamu walk just down the road from Tongariro. When for a walk the other week with a quick dip in the lake. There's some choice trees in there and most of the big ones have got huge epiphyte colonies in them. They always look like something that belongs in an Ent forest out of lord of the rings.

 

Rich; nah mate, quite happy looking at it. Hoping to get round to Titiraupenga (which means naff all to you I know) but there's apparently some monster Totara in the forest there. Most of the Lake Taupo surrounds were covered in massive Totara and Beech but were bulldozed to make way for Pine plantation. Occasionally they dig up a huge trunk but many are too big to get out. Saw a waka they were making at Wairakei which was made out of the top third of a Totara that had been dug up. Shame what we do to our trees sometimes.

 

Awesome looking tree Bro, could you guestimate the height?

 

Drew how far would that one be from the Kauri that that you and Jonno climbed with the pro-vid last year?

 

Keeps us all keen over here fellas!

[Taupotreeman]

Guestimate would be at least 90 feet I would say but difficult to be really accurate as it was in the middle of the bush. Next time I'm up I'll take a bit more notice. We have some really nice old growth forest around here that somehow managed to not be flattened by various eruptions. I can answer the second question aswell; Central North Island (my photo) is about 4 hours drive south from Auckland (taking in coffee stops etc). Can't remember if Drew's was Tane up in the Waipoua forest ( 2 to 3 hours north of Auckland) or one of the big Kauri out in the Waitakere ranges just out of Auckland but I'm sure he'll confirm.

[tommer9]

Robert- nice stick there mate!!

 

That Nothofagus is truly a thing of beauty!

[MattyF]

some pics from last few weeks ,fells were because of development, apart from dead chestnut heart breaking as nice trees but some ones got to do it!!and good excuse for some self gratifying lunge photos!!

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[tommer9]

Hehe- some big lumps there matty!

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[DrewB]

Guestimate would be at least 90 feet I would say but difficult to be really accurate as it was in the middle of the bush. Next time I'm up I'll take a bit more notice. We have some really nice old growth forest around here that somehow managed to not be flattened by various eruptions. I can answer the second question aswell; Central North Island (my photo) is about 4 hours drive south from Auckland (taking in coffee stops etc). Can't remember if Drew's was Tane up in the Waipoua forest ( 2 to 3 hours north of Auckland) or one of the big Kauri out in the Waitakere ranges just out of Auckland but I'm sure he'll confirm.

 

Hey bro, the kauri was it the waitakere ranges- a mere baby to the waipou forest trees. Hopefully coming down soon to climb and film in the totara forest near you, I'll let you know when. The epiphytes are amazing in the old growth woods, they must way tonnes. I counted 16 mature trees growing in the crotchs of a large kauri a while ago. One of them was a 10m tall rimu with a decent stem too.

[Tommy_B]

That willow came out lovely Matt!!

[Taupotreeman]

10m in a crotch? Man that must have been a hell of a tree. Plenty of epiphytes round this way in the forests to the southern side of Ruapehu and heading up into the Kaimanawas. Also heading over the Punga to Taumarunui through the Kahikatea forests there's some good examples.