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Kahikatea canopy

New Zealand Tree canopy.

The kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides), New Zealand’s tallest forest tree, once dominated the forests that covered much of the country's swampy lowland areas. Kahikatea trees group closely, intertwining buttressed roots for support in unstable swampy ground. 

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