A fern connection between New Zealand offshore islands and mountains of Borneo and New Guinea
Botany curator Leon Perrie describes how a New Zealand fern’s closest relative has turned up in an unexpected place.Read more
2021-03-22
What can kōwhai tell us about the location of New Zealand’s forests during the ice ages?
Science researcher Lara Shepherd explores kōwhai trees, one of New Zealand’s most widely recognised native plants and our unofficial national flower.Read more
2017-03-14
DNA-fingerprinting fierce lancewood
Aside from ferns, my main research interest is the group of trees known as Pseudopanax, for which I collaborate with Lara Shepherd from the Allan Wilson Centre. Pseudopanax includes the lancewoods and five-fingers. Several of the species are popular in cultivation, including fierce lancewood (Pseudopanax ferox). This species is soRead more
2009-06-30