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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once An Angel]

A small number may have developed from remnant populations of endemic cold-tolerant plants (for example, the snow totara (Podocarpus nivalis)).    From Wordnik.com.  [Southland montane grasslands] Reference

The common podocarps are: rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), thin-barked totara (Podocarpus hallii), miro (Prumnopitys ferruginea), and kohekoe (Dysoxylum spectabile).    From Wordnik.com.  [Northland temperate kauri forests] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

Matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia) and totara (Podocarpus totara) were also abundant in these areas but are now restricted to two main remnants (totaling 6 km2) in the Waiho and Whataroa Valleys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westland temperate forests] Reference

Possums have caused the widespread death of kamahi and rata in lowland forests and the death of kaikawaka (Libocedrus bidwillii) and Hall's totara (Podocarpus hallii) in the southern ranges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northland temperate forests] Reference

The foothills from north to south were covered in beech forest (Nothofagus spp.), while the plains were covered with mixed beech-podocarp forest dominated by matai (Prumnoptitys taxifolia) and totara (Podocarpus totara).    From Wordnik.com.  [Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands] Reference

Tall podocarp trees (rimu, miro, Hall's totara) then succeed and the end point of this sequence can be found on the higher glacial outwash surfaces (around 25,000 years old); here the extremely leached, infertile soils can only support a stunted heath and bog vegetation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand] Reference

Prior to human arrival the drier central regions of Otago probably had a cover of low conifer-broadleaf forest made up of species like mountain toatoa (Phyllocladus alpinus), Hall's totara (Podocarpus hallii), broadleaf (Griselinia littoralis), and kanuka (Kunzea ericoides).    From Wordnik.com.  [Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands] Reference

On the other side is a bigger variety, everything from korokia and ake ake to young totara and kahikatea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

Rosey and Janine emerged from a grove of totara trees near the river and crept slowly towards us, across grass that had been mown and sprinkled with petals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading the Maps] Reference

That led, he says, to the unearthing of an eroding oval wooden structure that has now been confirmed as being made from both local totara and adzed timber from elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radio New Zealand News Headlines] Reference

These were once dominated by the major podocarp species: rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), miro (Podocrpus ferrugineus), matai (Podocarpus spicatus), totara (Podocarpus totara), and kahikatea (Dacryacrpus dacrydioides).    From Wordnik.com.  [Northland temperate forests] Reference

Kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa) and rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) grow at lower altitudes with rimu giving way to Hall's totara (Podocarpus hallii) and kaikawaka (Libocedrus bidwillii) below a shrub layer dominated by leatherwood (Olearia colensoi).    From Wordnik.com.  [Northland temperate forests] Reference

Auckland, 28 April 2010 Better river management plans, extending bans on shellfish collection, planting more totara forests and implementing rat control programmes to help save endangered native skinks are just some of the recommendations to come from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

The next step was to collect wood for a fire, which was not difficult, for at some distant time the whole of the hill must have been covered by a forest of totara trees; it has apparently been destroyed by fire, for the huge trunks and branches which still strew the steep sides are charred and half burnt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Station Life in New Zealand] Reference

It is singular that while this district is the only place in New Zealand where the kauri-trees are found, nearly every other species of tree native to the country is also found here, among them the rimu, the matai, the white pine, the tooth-leaved beech, and the totara, all in close proximity to the kauri.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference

There are traces all over the hills of vast forests having once existed; chiefly of totara, a sort of red pine, and those about us are scattered with huge logs of this valuable wood, all bearing traces of the action of fire; but shepherds, and explorers on expeditions, looking for country, have gradually consumed them for fuel, till not many pieces remain except on the highest and most inaccessible ranges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Station Life in New Zealand] Reference

1870 to replace a sacred native totara cut down by early European immigrants as they began to develop Auckland into New Zealand's largest city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference