We will climb for 40 minutes up the 4WD Buchanans Road Tramping Track, passing Dendrobium cunninghamii, Earina autumnalis, Helichrysum lanceolatum and Metrosideros colensoi. From there we’ll walk bait lines and informal unformed tracks for a 90-minute circuit of Syzygium maire (maire tawake, swamp maire). Botanising time will be additional to this. Bring good footwear and […]

Note not the first Saturday of a month. Stoney Creek block is owned by Greater Wellington and is predominantly plantation forest. However, it also contains a number of remnant native forest areas that we will explore. These include areas where black and hard beech are dominant, as well as areas of mānuka and kānuka. There […]