KAURI / AGATHIS AUSTRALIS
Kauri are among the world's mightiest trees
Some of NZ’s oldest trees have grown to more than 50 metres tall
with trunk girths of up to 16 metres.
This adolescent tree may be 100 years old
It grows in our back garden.
As the trees mature, the trunk thickens and the lower branches are shed,
giving form to the clean straight trunk of the adult tree.

This is the oldest and tallest Kauri Tree in NZ: