Share a pre-meeting bring-your-own supper: a flask of hot drink, cup and a small plate of ‘nibbles’. Then listen to our speakers — limit 10 minutes / person. For a gold-coin koha, or even ‘folding money’, buy one or more of the books we put on display, and help build up the Jubilee Award Fund […]
Note 2nd Saturday of June to coincide with low tide. We will botanise the lower slopes of the Whitireia coastal escarpment where it is accessible and the rocky platform at Rocky Bay. You will see Asplenium obtusatum, Leptinella nana, Veronica elliptica, Euphorbia glauca, Sonchus kirkii and Melicytus obovatus and other coastal taonga. This trip will be challenging as we will […]
Speakers: Lara Shepherd, Science Researcher, Te Papa and Leon Perrie, Botany Curator, Te Papa. Lord Howe Island is a small, remote, subtropical island between New Zealand and Australia that has been recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Despite its small size it has a wide diversity of habitats. Over 40% of its vascular plant […]
We will climb the Puriri Track through kānuka and hard beech to the Main Ridge Track. We’ll then head south as far as the junction with Rata Ridge Track, passing black beech, kamahi, and pockets of scrub, before returning the same way (c. 2 hours return if not botanising). The forest is reasonably diverse for […]
Speaker: Dr Debra Wotton – Director and Principal Ecologist, Moa’s Ark Research; Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury. Limestone outcrops in the eastern South Island are hotspots of native plant diversity, with many endemic herbs and a disproportionately high number of threatened species. Almost half of the specialist limestone taxa in the […]
We will botanise this Significant Natural Area off Gillies Place by a circular route incorporating spurs and gullies. Last botanised in 1980, and described as regenerating scrub and forest remnant, this reserve has developed a diverse canopy of kohekohe, tawa, hīnau and māpou and has some relict matai, rimu, kahikatea, and a large Streblus banksii. […]