Thirty Nine Common Amenity Trees, Shrubs, And Climbers

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Common names: Arizona Cypress, Rough barked Arizona cypress.

Family: Cupressaceae
Scientific name: Cupressus arizonica
Evergreen pyramid shaped tree 36-72ft, soft textured, pale grey green, scale like silvery blue-green foliage, full sun, male flowers are yellow- green and female are pale green at tips of branches, flowers in April – May, reproduces through seed and cuttings, tolerant to cold conditions, can survive in hot dry canyon & stream banks, fruits are dry woody cones opened with fire, 1inch in diameter, 6-8 pointed scales turn brown when mature and can stay on tree for several years, leaves are in opposite arrangement, evergreen, drought tolerant, fast growing, live for about 30-50 years.

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Needles
Cones tennis balls

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Common names: Broad leaf, Papauma.

Family name: Griseliniaceae

Maori name: Kapuka
Scientific name: Griselinia littoralis
New Zealand
Broad leaf is a small tree which is found throughout New Zealand in forests from sea level to 900m used commonly as hedging, has deep green oval glossy simple leaves and can tolerate a wide range of conditions. Grows to 30ft Tiny Yellow flowers in late spring Male and female on separate trees, fruit are small dark purple drupe only on female trees Very hardy to wind and tolerates frost. This plant reproduces with seed. Full sun. Pollinated by wind

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Big leaves
Waxy and shiny
Ear Lobe

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Common Name: stromante
Scientific Name: Calathea stromata
Family name: Marantaceae
Found: Brazil
Small shrub grows in Temp: 10-25 degrees C, moderate growth rate, survive in full sunlight, light- dark green foliage, lilac flowers, large green striped simple leaves.

Hint 3

stripes
zebra

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Family: Myrtaceae
Name: Callestemon
Common Name: Little John
Australia
Small, bushy shrub. Evergreen, red flowers, produces by seed inside woody seed capsules, attract birds. Short thin dark green foliage with simple leaves in alternate leaf arrangement. Survives in full sun- partial sun.

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Jon

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Common Name: Mirror plant

Family: Rubiaceae
Maori name: Taupata
Scientific name: Coprosma repens
Category: Native
Coprosma repens is a fast growing native with small round/oval shaped dark green glossy leaves, tolerant to salty wind and hard conditions. This plant flowers in May- June. This plant reproduces through seed. Fruits are small and orange. This plant grows to 8m tall. Tolerates costal conditions very sensitive to frost. Has simple leaves. Full sun. Leaves are in opposite arrangement. Wind pollinated.

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small round oval mirror

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Family: Rosaceae
Name: Prunus laurocerasus
Common Name: Cherry Laurel
Asia Minor
Evergreen shrub or small tree, 5-18m tall, trunk 60cm in diameter, leaves shiny dark green leathery feel, 5-30cm long, flower buds appear in early spring and open in early summer, creamy white petals with yellow stamens, flowers 1cm diameter, fruit is a small cherry 1-2cm diameter, black when ripe in early autumn, alternate leaf arrangement, simple leaves, moderate growth rate, no autumn colour, full sun-partial shade, produces by seed and cuttings,

Hint 6

Small dinosaur

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Common Name: Bleeding Heart Vine, bleeding heart, clerodendron, gory bower
Family: Lamiaceae

Scientific Name: Clerodendrum thomsonae
Found: Tropical West Africa
Fragrant flowers, full sun to partial shade, in high humidity, reproduces through seed in fruits in Spring through summer and cuttings, poisonous if ingested, pure white and red flowers, large dark green leaves, evergreen or deciduous leaves are simple opposite. Climber.

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Bleeding Heart

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Common Name: Common Ivy, English ivy, Cistero, Duvar Sarmasigi, Edera, Ellera, Habl Al Masakeen, Hedera, Hiedra, Ivy, Klimop, Lere, Lierre, Srcanik, Yedra

Family: Araliaceae
Maori Name: None
Scientific Name: Hedera helix
Dark green with white veins leaves, waxy, alternately arranged along climbing stem, simple leaves, 3lobed until reaches certain "mature" age then leaves become oval which does not climb. Fruits are black with fleshy outer covering 1 or a few stone like seeds in May -June poisonous. Plant climbs to get sufficient light. Climbs with adventitious roots. Reproduces by seeds by means of animal transportation. Said to be poisonous in large doses. Hardy and can tolerate frost, flowers spring, Flowers are greenish white. Salt tolerant to a point. Sensitive to frost and cold.

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White veins

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Common Name: Congo Cockatoo
Scientific Name: Impatiens niamniamensis
Category: Balsaminaceae
Survives in light shade, partial sun, and full shade, flowers are red, bright yellow and green, evergreen plant with all year round flowering, sensitive to dry conditions, reproduces by seed which it disperses without use of fruit, can be grown with cuttings, height 18- 36in (45-90cm),

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Cockatoo beak

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Common Name: Massangeana Corn Plant, Cornstalk/ fragrant Dracaena
Scientific Name: Dracaena fragrans
Family: Dracaenaceae
Has glossy bright green leaves with green rimmed yellow stripes down the center, slow growing pole shrub, leaves grow 1m- 4in 10cm wide when grown in ground they reach 20ft 6m high growth is limited in pots, has white, near white flowers highly fragrant Showy Yellow variegation. Grown from cuttings, Full sun, sun with partial shade, light shade, partial to full shade, full shade, grow best colouration in half shade, tolerant to drought, should be allowed to dry during waterings, seeds grow in pods, simple leaves, arrangement, spiral, no autumn colour change, small round fruit, less than .5inch in size fleshy.

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Corn

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Common Name: Creeping Fig
Family: Moraceae

Scientific Name: Ficus pumila
Climber
Evergreen vine which grows to about 30- 40ft tall and lives in full sun- Partial shade, flowers are small and subtle female are reddish and male are whitish, fruit is droopy and fig like and plum size which is inedible. Simple leaves are green with leathery texture when mature in alternate arrangement.

Hint 11

string of figs

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Common name: Nepalese paper plant 'jacueline Postill'

Family: Thymelaeaceae

Scientific name; Daphne bholua

Eastern Himalayas

Semi-evergreen, very slow growing shrub growing to about 3m tall. with narrow, dark green, simple leaves. Flowers in late winter-spring, flowers are light pink-whitish. Fruits are black drupes, reproduces through seed which is very slow to germinate. Grows in full sun-partial shade. Seedlings usually flower in their fourth year.

Hint 12

Parkers sisters name

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Name: Dichroa febrifuga

Family: Hydrangeaceae
Nepal, Asia, Indosia
An evergreen shrub that grows to about 4- 6ft tall and 5ft wide. The leaves are 4-8inchs long and are dark green with a papery texture. Similar to hydrangea. White buds open to bright blue flowers in Spring and Summer. Fruits are small dark blue berries which form in Autumn, the more acidic the soil, the more blue the flowers produced turn out. Grows in part sun- light shade.

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blue Napal

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Common Names: European Broom, Scotch Broom, Broomtops, Common broom, Irish Broom, English Broom.

Family Fabaceae
Scientific Name: Cytisus scoparius
Typically grows 1-3m rarely 4m tall dark green thin shoots, small deciduous trifoliate leaves 5-15mm long. In spring and summer is covered top to bottom in yellow flowers. In late summer black seed pods are produced which explode releasing seeds and throwing them away from parent tree. Hardiest species of broom surviving temperatures -25degrees Celsius. Alternate arrangement, Shrub, Green.

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Sweeping

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Name: Gasteria verrucosa

Family: Aloaceae
Evergreen succulent shrub grows to about 10cm. In Autumn, Spring and summer is orange in colour, lives in dry areas with simple alternate arranged leaves which are fleshy and often prickly. Flowers are red-brown-yellow-orange-whitish. Seeds are winged or flattened. Fruits are capsular. Flowers in Jan- Feb. Grows in full sun-partial shade and has high drought tolerance.

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Juicy dry orange

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Family: Proteaceae
Name: Grevillea prostrate
Common Name: Aurea
Australia
Evergreen and grows in full sun-partial shade and has about 1-5m spread with soft, dark green leaves and has yellow-cream flowers. Reproduces through seed.

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yellow Australia

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Family: Gunneraceae
Common Name: Gunnera, Chilli and Rhubarb
Brazil
Height: 1.8m- 2.4m
Width: 2.4- 3m
Full sun-partial shade
Green-red inconspicuous bloom in early summer- late summer- early autumn, moist boggy habitat, spiny stem and undersides of giant leaves, and has very high moisture needs. Produced by tubers, corms, bulbs or dividing rootball or rhizomes. Grows in full sun- partial shade. Leaves are giant grey green and very coarse, evergreen.

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Hot Rhubarb

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Common Name: Hamburger Phoenix
Kordes

Family: Rosaeae
Category: Climber
Deep red flowers with light fragrance, dark green foliage with simple leaves 8ft+ climber, disease resistant and shade tolerant, it flowers continuously throughout the year.

Hint 18

Zoe stage name.

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Maori Name: Kauri

Family: Araucariaceae
Scientific Name: Agathis australis
Evergreen tree which grows to up to 50m tall with simple leaves 3-7cm long and 1cm width, which are tough, leathery in texture and grow in opposite arrangement. Produces cones 5-7cm in diameter which releases seed 18-20 months after pollination.

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Tana Mahuta

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Common Name: Pepper Tree
Maori Name: Kawakawa

Family: Piperaceae
Scientific Name: Macropiper excelsum
Category: Native shrub
Shrub 6m tall, large aromatic, dark green, heart shaped leaves, common throughout the North and South islands, reproduces through seed in fruits, fruit is small yellow and sweet most often found on female trees in summer. Used for medicinal purposes and to make titoki liqueur.

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Salt & Pepper

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Common Names: Weeping Kowhai
Maori Names: Kowhai

Family: Fabaceace
Scientific Name: Sophora microphylla
Grows to approx 8m tall, small leaves, arranged opposite, dark matte green, segmented seed pods, Yellow flowers horn shaped, flowers in early Spring, pods appear after flowering, each contain 6+ seeds smooth hard yellow, deciduous, losing leaves each winter. Six years old flower. Grow near water, seeds float in water and travel. Fast growing, seeds are poisonous, don’t grow with roots in water, like good drainage, grows above water on bank above sea level. Full sun, Semi shade, Hardy
Cultivation, seeds immersed in boiling water for a few days, sow seeds in autumn or spring.

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Yellow tears

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Common Name: Lancewood, Horoeka

Family: Araliaceae
Scientific Name: Pseudopanix ferox
Juvenile leaves are long, thin up to about 40cm stiff, leathery, very dark grey green with sharp “tooth” like serrations.
Lancewood grows in an upward arrow shape. Mature trees’ leaves shorten and widen and become a bright green colour and lose the tooth like serrations, the shape also changes and it grows upward with a broad thick leaved top about 6m tall and 25cm diameter. Grows in full sun- partial shade.

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Lancing - three growth stages/leaves

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Common name: Lime Swirl

Family: Begoniaceae
Scientific Name: Rhizomatous begonia
Category: Begoniaceae Hybrid
45-90cm survives in light shade flowers repeatedly throughout the year flowers are pale pink evergreen blue green velvet fuzzy textured foliage with veins, reproduces by means of tubers corms or bulbs also by leaf and stem cuttings.

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Swirly lime drink

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Family: Magnoliaceae
Name: Magnolia campbellii
Spp: Mollicomata
Garden Origin
Medium to large deciduous tree, growing to 30-45m, leaves are 10-23cm, 4.5-10cm wide, fuzzy underneath, very large white-dark pink flowers 15-25cm diameter, appear early before leaves in late winter to early spring.

Hint 24

Missing pink cups

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Family: Aizcacceae
Common Name: Crimson Glory
Common Name: Ice Plant
Name: Mesembryanthemum
South Africa
Succulent herb or perennial shrub. Grows about 1m wide, flowers in late spring- early Summer, pink-white- Near white in colour with smooth glossy leaves, which grows about 15-30cm in height and about 45-60cm in width, leaves and stems are covered in tiny clear blister like growths. Flowers are 7-10mm I diameter, stems are red-green, leaves are small simple flat fleshy spoon shaped. Fruit is a capsule which opens when wet. Stem,leaves and fruit are all edible.

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crimson glory

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Common Name: Lotus, blue lotus, Indian lotus, sacred lotus, bean of India, Sacred Water lily.

Family: Nulumbonaceae
Scientific Name: Nelumbo nucifera
Name: "Alba Grandiflora"
Aquatic, course dark green leaves flowers are fragrant white unusual showy horizontal, tolerant to heat and humidity, flowers in mid summer to mid summer, survives in part shade and full sun, full sun for full potential, lives In water, two feet wide with round leaves held 3-6 feet above the water, flowers are usually pink 4-10 inches in diameter, colours vary from white to pink, Fruit is woody, reproduces through seed tubers, can be eaten, tubers used in Chinese cooking.

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Indian blue frogs

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Ngaio
Mousehole tree

Family: Myoporacae
Myoporum laetum
Evergreen, Grows to 10m, bears white, near white blossoms in late winter mid spring. Fast growing shrub, small tree, leaves have oil glands which give them a yellow/ white spotted look, Poisonous to cattle sheep pigs, seed orange light brown, 5-8mm, 8week stratification for seeds, seeds take several months to germinate.

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Mouse in a tree hole near Johnsonville

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Common Name: Heart Leaf Philodendron

Family: Araceae
Scientific Name: Philodendron scandens
2-3inchs wide, solid green heart shaped leaves, with long hanging green coloured stems, alternate leaves, simple leaf structure, Grows in shadey conditions, sensitive to salt, mid level tolerance to dry conditions, climber, height depends on structure on which it is climbing, as it climbs leaves become larger reaching about 12inchs long, does not change colour in Autumn, flowers periodically throughout the year, reproduces through seed in fruits.

Hint 28

Jack and the heart stalk.

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Common Names: Monetry Pine, Radiata Pine, Himalayan pine

Family: Pinaceae
Scientific Name: Pinus radiata
Fast growing evergreen tree grows to about 15-60m tall leaves are thin needles which are bright/dark green 8-15cm long. Produces cones in winter which are 7-17cm brown and egg shaped, which open to release seeds. Grows in full sun and is tolerant to drought, has Male and female flowers which are wind pollinated.

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cones and injections

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Family: Pittosporaceae
Name: Pitosporum crassifolium
Karo
New Zealand
Shrub, native, 5m in height, dense dark grey-green foliage, tolerant to salt spray and high winds small red-purple flowers appear in spring early summer, produces by green seed pods which split to expose sticky shiny black seeds in Autumn, lives in full sun, and scented.

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Pita pit - arm pit

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Maori Name: Pohutakawa

Family: Mytraceae
Scientific Name: Metrosideros excelsus
Evergreen, 23’-35’ height 25’ wide, medium growth rate, dark red flowers in clusters of 3-5, bloom in multiple flower cycles throughout the year, leathery green brown seed capsules on the tree all year, produces through seed from seed capsules.

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christmas tree

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Common Name: Poppy

Family: Papaveraceae
Scientific Name: Papaver nudicaule
North America Asia Minor
Perennial with white, pink, orange and yellow scented flowers blooming in Spring and Winter, pale green leaves with a long stem with small hairs, growing to about 12-24inches (30-60cm) tall with a 6-8inch (15-20cm) spread.

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ANZAC

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Scientific Name: Vitex lusens

Family: Verbenaceae
Maori Name: Puriri
Evergreen, tree can grow up to 20m tall trunk 1.5m in diameter, dark green glossy leaves, 5leaflets, lowest two leaflets are smaller than the rest, seedling leaves are lighter in colour, with serrated edges, large flowers look like snapdragon flowers, clolours can range from fluorescent pink-dark red-rose pink, white-green,can grow in clusters of 12 flowers per cluster, flowers can be found all year round on Puriri trees,but is most common over summer, fruit usually bright red- pale yellow,grows to the size of a cherry but unpleasant to eat as it makes the mouth feel like “dried shoe leather” seed is very hard pear shaped, that contains up to 4 embryo seedlings.

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five pink fingers

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Name: Rhododendron cornubia

Family: Ericaceae
Name: Cornubia
Garden Origins
Grows in full sun- Partial shade. Blood red flowers blooms very early spring but not every year, flowers grow in rounded trusses of about 12 flowers. Grows to about 2-2.5m tall and leaves can yellow when planted in full sunlight.

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Roads

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Common Name: Redvale, Slipper Orchid

Family: Orchidaceae
Scientific Name: Orchidaceae paphiopedilum
Cultivar: Winston Churchill. Indomitable
Additional cultivar information: (P.Edrigex P. Hampden)
Height, 6- 12inchs 15-30cm, 12- 18inchs 30-45cm
Flowers are yellow/green, white/ off white and maroon in late winter/ early spring and is an evergreen smooth leathery texture, plant is sterile therefore does not reproduce. Grows to a height of 6-18inchs (15-45cm) Hardiness is at zone 11 above 4.5degrees Celsius. Grows in light shade and can be grown indoors.

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awkward slippers

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Common Name: spanish moss, lichen

Family name: Bromeliaceae
Scientific Name: Tillandsia usneoides
Found: USA to Argentina & Chile
Grows hanging from a tree is not moss or lichen but a flowering plant, grows in full sun and partial shade, grows in moderately high humidity and where climate is warm, plant has slender stem with alternate thin, curved, heavily scaled leaves 2-6cm long and 1mm broad, grow in chain fashion, forming a hanging arrangement 1-2m long occasionally more, plant has aerial roots has tiny subtle flowers, produces seed and reproduces by both seed and vegetatively by fragments that blow in the wind and stick to tree limbs, or carried by birds as nesting material. Epiphyte, seeds grow in pods.

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Not moss or liked in NZ

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Common Name: Staghorn Fern

Family: Polypodiceae
Scientific Name: Platycerum superbum
Found: Malasia to Australia
Native to lowland rainforests in Queensland, epiphytic plant occasionally lithophytic, has a nest which measures 1m which it uses to catch falling leaves and insects as a source of nutrients, clasps onto trees with roots, can grow to about 2m in length, during summer produces a mass of spores, reproduces via spores, very tolerant to dry conditions, moderate humidity and sunlight.

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Super to have a stags horn in the bum.

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Common Name: Royal Waterlily, Giant Water lily, Amazon Water Lily

Family name: Nymphaceae
Scientific Name: Victoria amazonica
Yellow-Green leaves 3m diameter, with coppery red spiny underside, sits on top of water, on a stalk 7-8m long, flowers bloom at night in mid summer and are white on the first night, pink on the second and dark pinkish red on the third before it dies, flowers are 40cm in diameter and are pollinated by beetles and are strongly fragrant. Edges on flat round “pad” like leaves are turned up and topside is smooth.

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Lily and queen go to the amazon.

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Maori Name: Whau
Common Name: Corkwood

Family name: Tiliaceae
Scientific Name: Entelea arborescens
Grows to 6m tree or shrub, large lime green leaves, dry fruit capsules are brown and have spines all over them, leaves are 10-20cm long, flowers profusely between early spring and mid summer, 2cm in diameter, white, scented, full sun, light shade.

Hint 39

A chicken opening a cork bottle.