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Podocarpus totara
(redirected from Totara tree)

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Noun1.Podocarpus totara - valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharvesPodocarpus totara - valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves
genus Podocarpus, Podocarpus - evergreen trees or shrubs; sometimes classified as member of the family Taxaceae
conifer, coniferous tree - any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones


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Key ingredients include tea tree oil, jojoba oil and Totarol, an extract from Totara trees that has been proven to work against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
Maungakiekie was named after a sacred totara tree which stood atop the hill until 1876, when white authorities replaced it with an exotic pine.
One Maori tale, for example, describes how the totara tree bragged that since he believed that he could stretch high enough to reach the Sky Father, he should become king of the forest.
 
 
 
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