monoao
1. (noun) monoao, Halocarpus kirkii - a rare tall native tree up to 25 m tall with grey-brown bark that separates off in thickish, irregular flakes. The leaves of adult trees are thick, scale-like and overlap in four rows against the branchlets, while the juvenile leaves are 1.5-4 cm long (see illustration) and sometimes persist until the tree reaches about 10 m in height. Found only from Kaitaia to the Coromandel Peninsula and Port Waikato and on Great Barrier Island.
2. (noun) monoao, Dracophyllum subulatum - shrub to 2 m tall with slender branches and branchlets leafy at the tips only. Leaves are narrow and rigid and minutely serrate. Plants brownish from summer. Flowers white.
I tētahi pakanga ki a Whanganui ka pūpūtia e ia ngā monoao, kia pōhēhētia ai he tāngata (M 2004:332). / During a battle against the Whanganui tribes, he bundled up monoao trees so that the heaps would be mistaken for people.
Synonyms: manoao
Muriwhenua
1. (location) North Cape area of the North Island, Far North (i.e. north of Kaitaia).
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 78;)
Ka whakaae a Poroa, ka kīia me whawhai ō rāua hapū ki te one o Muriwhenua (TTT 1/1/1925:s54). / Poroa agreed and said that their two hapū should fight on the beach at North Cape.
manoao
1. (noun) silver pine, Manoao colensoi - a tree that grows to 15 m. Trunk is straight and clear of branches. Found from sea level to 950 m in northern North Island and on the West Coast of the South Island. In the juvenile tree the leaves are long, narrow, pointed, rather limp and spreading, but they become smaller in the semi-adult stage. The leaves of the adult tree are thick, keeled and scale-like.
Ka rite hoki ia ki te manoao i te koraha, e kore hoki e kite i te putanga mai o te pai; engari ko ngā wāhi waikore o te koraha hei kāinga mōna, he whenua tote, e kore nei e nohoia (PT Heremaia 17:6). / For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.
2. (noun) monoao, Halocarpus kirkii - a rare tall native tree up to 25 m tall with grey-brown bark that separates off in thickish, irregular flakes. The leaves of adult trees are thick, scale-like and overlap in four rows against the branchlets, while the juvenile leaves are 1.5-4 cm long (see illustration) and sometimes persist until the tree reaches about 10 m in height. Found only from Kaitaia to the Coromandel Peninsula and Port Waikato and on Great Barrier Island.
2. (noun) karapapa, Alseuosmia macrophylla - a shrub found in forest undergrowth from North Cape to the upper South Island that grows to about 2 m, with red-brown branches and dark green foliage. It has alternating glossy leaves with widely spaced teeth. The tubular flowers are 2.4-4 cm long and highly scented. They vary in colour from dark red to cream. Fruit is crimson.
See also karapapa
3. (noun) Alseuosmia banksii var. linariifolia - endemic bushy slender shrub up to 1 m tall of Northland forests from Kaitaia to about Kaiwaka. Often associated with kauri. Leaves vary, much longer than wide, green, margin smooth. Small creamy yellow flowers, tubular, dropping in September - December. Fruit fleshy, red.
