This cabbage tree is found throughout the land, especially in the countryside.
It grows in roadside groves as well as being the lone tree in a sheep paddock.
Captain Cook and his crew gave the cabbage tree its name. The shoots they ate reminded them of cabbage.
This is tree was known to the Maori as "ti kouka", and its uses were many. The inner roots and pith of young tree, called "ti", were collected and dried in the sun to make a kind of porridge, and the leaves were not only used for thatching houses but woven to make rain capes.
In the town's foreshore
In the garden of our neighbor
This is the flowers of a cabbage tree.
Now, we can look those flowers in various places.
Update: 2003/11/19 11:36:38
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