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Canvas Photo Print stretch mounted on a wood block. Images are printed on high quality canvas with pigment inks and finished with a special coating of varnish that waterproofs the surface.
The profusion of tree ferns could rightly be said to be the most distinctive feature of New Zealand forest. They occur in all forests and are even more plentiful in cut-over and degraded forests where they obtain more light to regenerate and develop. They also appear in plantations of exotic trees as these grow older and open up.
Some six species go to make up what are commonly known as tree ferns. They are all usually single-stemmed and crowned by a huge rosette of leaves which gradually die from the base of the rosette, leaving the stem scarred and naked. These trunks thicken largely by the growth of a thick mat of aerial roots. The most majestic species is the mamaku, Cyathea medullaris, which grows over 40 ft tall and a foot in diameter. Individual fronds grow up to 15 ft long and 6 ft wide. The main stems of the fronds are stout and black. The species grows in lowland forests throughout New Zealand and in the Chatham and Three Kings Islands, in some Pacific Islands, and in Australia.
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