New BROADLEAF PART 1

Latin - Griselinia Littoralis

Maori - Kapuka or papauma

Following a lot of digging and research for this plant series of articles, I discovered several studies and pieces of literature that back up and confirms what, as hunters, we already knew from our observations in the field … game animals ‘love’ broadleaf

‘Back in the day’, (don’t you love that term …. could mean last week or could refer to 40 years ago but in this case around the early '90s), my mate, Steve, and I used hunt a very steep, bluffy and fairly inaccessible tract of back country. Geologically it is rather unique in that the main rock type is limestone, unlike the rest of the province (and in indeed the whole of New Zealand) which is greywacke.

Effectively, in terms of vegetation types, it favours the growth of podocarp hardwood species unlike surrounding areas which are generally dominated by beech forests. One of the species that absolutely thrives