Keywords: MataiJuvenile267.jpg juvenile foliage of a Mataī Prumnopitys taxifolia Podocarpaceae Endemic to New Zealand The juvenile Mataī is a shrub consisting of a tangle of slender flexuous divaricating branchlets interspersed with occasional brown pale yellow or dirty white leaves The juvenile stage may last many years until at last the adult form begins to grow out of the top of the shrub; then the divaricating branches atrophy and drop away Own 2007-06-02 Kahuroa Kahuroa Prumnopitys taxifolia Files by User Kahuroa |