Browsing items filed under: Full Shade × Requires Shelter × Free Draining/Volcanic × Blechnum discolour Crown fern. Piupiu. Found throughout NZ usually in drier forests Cyathea medullaris Mamaku, black ponga Tallest of the tree ferns Macropiper excelsum Recently had name change to Piper excelsum subsp. Kawakawa, peper tree. Found in abundance throughout the North Island. Attractive orange candle-like berries make quite a feature. Macropiper melchior Three Kings Island Kawakawa. Recently renamed as Piper melchoir. Very strong thick leaves with exaggerated leaf veining. Peperomia urvilleana Found throughout North Island and upper South Island Coastal plant forming low clumps, fleshy stems and leaves. Attractive indoor or patio plant. Pisonia brunoniana Parapara, bird-catcher tree. Found on Three Kings and upper North Island. Large glossy green leave, grows up to 3m high. Rhabdothamnus solandri Waiu-atua, New Zealand gloxinia Small shrub found in shady areas with delicate flowers ranging in colour from yellow to orange. Rhopalostylis baueri var cheesemanii Kermadec nikau The Kermadec nikau has longer fronds, larger flower heads and darker seeds than the mainland nikau.