Kowhai tree

Kowhai trees

Kowhai tree is an endemic plant from New Zealand. Most kowhai are trees except two of them are bush species. Kowhai trees habitat in river terraces, dunes, floodplains, lake margins, hill slopes and rocky ground. The kowhai is one of the best known native trees in New Zealand and it’s our unofficial national flower. Lots of New Zealand native birds are common to the kowhai trees; it is their home. Kowhai trees can grow up to 25 meters. They grow from small seeds in the ground.