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.
