Whetu Survivor rotation 2

For my second Whetu survivor rotation, we had to research about New Zealand native trees. The tree I chose to research was Pohuwtukawa. This rotation was both fun and challenging. To find our research about our tree we used a website called  The Meaning of Trees this website helped a lot because if you tried researching on google it would give you some really complicated sentence that you had no idea what it meant. I really enjoyed this rotation and would love to do it again.

Different names for Pohuwtukawa.

Maori name	Scientific name	English name
The New Zealand Christmas tree	Metrosideros excelsa	Pohutukawa

Where might you find Pohuwtukawa?

North Island

Found throughout the North Island, particularly north of New Plymouth and Gisborne. Pohutukawa grows best in warm, drier areas close to the sea.

The Pohutukawa tree has red crimson leaves and large leaves the leaves are a dark green and The underside of a pohutukawa leave has fine white hairs. 

The nectar from the flowers was collected by Māori and used in the treatment of sore throats. Both Māori and Europeans used a decoction from the inner bark in the treatment of dysentery if you don't know what dysentery is it's bloody or infectious diarrhoea.