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Huge kauri trees once covered a lot of the upper part of the North Island, but most were cut down for their timber and gum. The largest remaining kauri is Tane Mahuta in the Waipoua Forest: it's more than 50m tall and over 1,500 years old.
The puriri lives in coastal and lowland forests in the North Island, and its wood is extremely dense and heavy. The flowers of the puriri are usually pink, and the red or yellow berries are an important food source for native birds.
Totara is the Maori name for four types of closely-related trees that grow widely in New Zealand. The largest living example is near Mangapehi in the Waikato. This tree is called Pouakani: it's 39.6 metres tall, and could be 1,800 years old.
New Zealand's tallest tree can grow to around 60 metres. Its purple-black seeds are popular with tui, bellbirds, kaka and kereru, but many kahikatea forests were chopped down to create land for dairy farming around a hundred years ago.
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