Blogging from Kaingaroa

February 07, 2005

Lancewood

That is the leaf of a tree, if you can believe it. It is 18 inches long and 1/2 inch wide. Only after the tree is 15 feet tall does it grow anything resembling a normal leaf. This may be to thwart grazing moa, which are extinct ratites, or ostrich -like birds.


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