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Check out the QEII Open Space magazine, July 2008 (PDF 3.5MB)

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Restoring degraded gullies in Hamilton

Stemming the decline in beech mistletoes

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QEII covenants protect our bright flowering species

Bright flowering trees and shrubs that form an intrinsic part of our landscape such as flax (harakeke), kowhai, mistletoes, rata and tree fuchsia (kotukutuku) are bird pollinated.

Birds are attracted to the flowers and pollination occurs when they carry pollen from flower to flower as they seek nectar.

Many QEII covenants throughout New Zealand protect our bright flowering species. A few examples follow.

Above: This fuchsia forest is protected by Tim and Sue Craw’s 4ha montane forest QEII covenant on the flanks of Mt Pearce north of Akaroa. Photo: Miles Giller

Above: Flowers of the tree fuchsia Fuchsia excorticata (kotukutuku) are a food source for bellbirds, tui and silvereyes. Photo: Matt Walters

Above: Yellow mistletoe Alepis flavida growing on beech at a covenant in eastern Wairarapa. This species was thought to be extinct in this area. Photo: Robyn Smith

 
Above: Scarlet mistletoe Peraxilla colensoi on silver beech in the 2.8ha beech-podocarp forest open space covenant of Peter Clausen and Sue Rewcastle at Dovedale, inland Nelson. Photos: Philip Lissaman

Above: Kowhai in full bloom attract tui and bellbirds in profusion at Albert and Hazel Emmett’s 8ha forest covenant at Kawhia Harbour. Photo: Malcolm Mackenzie

Find out about research on the pollination of our bright flowering species ...

Open Space^TM Magazine No. 72 March 2008 © QEII National Trust

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