TAWHAI RAUNUI (Rotorua) Traditional Cache

Just a small cache. Bring your own pen. No room for swaps or trackables.

Great stealth will be required as muggles can and will appear from any direction at any time before you even know they are there.

Have a read of the information board and please take care of the surroundings.

New Zealand Beeches

New Zealand has four beech species and one subspecies. All are evergreen, broadleaf trees. Most New Zealand trees and shrubs are pollinated by insects or birds, or have their seeds dispersed by birds, but beech’s dry, nut-like seeds are spread by the wind. All except silver beech will form hybrids wherever they grow together.

Red Beech (Nothofagus fusca) is the largest beech species in New Zealand. Trees average 24–30 metres in height, with trunks 1.4–2.0 metres in diameter. When mature they have massive crowns, large flanges at the base of the trunk, and root buttresses. Of all the beeches, red beech is least resistant to unfavourable conditions. It grows on warm, lower- to mid-slopes, and deep, fertile, well-drained soils.

Red beech heartwood is durable and can be used in exterior exposed situations. It is suitable for outdoor decking and achieves Hazard Class H3.2 durability. Pathological heartwood is non-durable. Red beech sapwood is suitable for internal end-uses and is resistant to anobium and lyctus borers.

Both of these are common wood boring beetles.

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