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Mānuka

flowering Mānuka (Leptospermum scoparium) trees, New Zealand.

In the Waikato, mānuka is found on the drier edges of peat and fen wetlands, forming an important nursery for other native plant seedlings.

Mānuka tree: Duncan Cunningham, CC BY-NC 4.0, sourced from iNaturalistNZ

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