A gnarled pōhutukawa located on the northernmost tip of Cape Reinga is particularly significant to the Maori. It is here, according to Maori mythology, that the spirits of the dead begin their ...

in a valley of ramarama on the North Island's East Cape, comes as the windborne fungal disease has also been found to have infected our native Christmas tree, pōhutukawa, there for the first time.