Browsing items filed under: Partial Shade × Full Shade × Requires Shelter × Moist/damp × Blechnum discolour Crown fern. Piupiu. Found throughout NZ usually in drier forests Cyathea medullaris Mamaku, black ponga Tallest of the tree ferns Dysoxylum spectabile Kohekohe Coastal tree found North Cape to Nelson. Kohekohe flowers are an important and favoured source of floral nectar for Tui and Bellbird. Ptisana salicina Marratia salicinia, King fern, para Stunning fern with tropical appearance now rare in the wild due to decimation by wild pigs and goats. Rhopalostylis baueri var cheesemanii Kermadec nikau The Kermadec nikau has longer fronds, larger flower heads and darker seeds than the mainland nikau. Schefflera digitata Pate, Seven Finger Prefers damp, shady parts of the forest and is common along stream banks and on shady forest roadsides.