I saw this unusually coloured lancewood last week in the Wairarapa. Looked like peudopanax crassifolia. Striking appearance, leaves appeared quite blue-green with brown spine and lime green patches. Anyone seen this?
PS there is a close up photo but too large for the website, I will have to find out how to reduce it.
Hi Louise, spotting such as that or of a grey colour is reasonably common in lancewood and fierce lancewood. It has been theorised that it helped camouflage young plants from browsing by moa
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I saw this unusually coloured lancewood last week in the Wairarapa. Looked like peudopanax crassifolia. Striking appearance, leaves appeared quite blue-green with brown spine and lime green patches. Anyone seen this?