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n. - Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.

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  • An icy sweat broke out on his body as he careened down a hill, scraping his back on the serrated trunk of a totara tree.
  • A small number may have developed from remnant populations of endemic cold-tolerant plants (for example, the snow totara (Podocarpus nivalis)).
  • The common podocarps are: rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), thin-barked totara (Podocarpus hallii), miro (Prumnopitys ferruginea), and kohekoe (Dysoxylum spectabile).
  • The track, a seldom-used blazed trail, led steeply up the north side of the valley through thick silver beech forest with little understorey and a scattering of totara.
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