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Pohutukawa, with its striking red flowers, is an important symbol for all New Zealanders. Pohutukawa often features on festive greetings cards, poems and stories.
As well as a cultural symbol, the species has several practical uses. Its hard strong timber was used for ship-building, and parts of the tree were also used medicinally by the Maori. These trees withstand strong southern ocean winds, salt spray and drought, and can live for up to years.
They also provide shelter and erosion control, vital ecosystem services in this exposed region. The primary threat to this species is invasive non-native possums.
Possums are voracious leaf-eaters, and will eat mature leaves, buds, flowers and shoots, stripping trees of their vegetation. Pohutukawa populations have also been affected by the use of fire for land clearing — despite its hardiness, the species is very sensitive to fire and even a light grassland fire at the base of a mature tree will kill it.
Its roots are vulnerable to damage from livestock and vehicles, and it continues to be used as firewood.
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