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Art Print by Teresa Coulthurst.
Print Size: 150mm x 210mm, with a white border of 50 mm surrounding. Prints are rolled in a tube.
A Nikau forest in Westland on the South Island of New Zealand. The nikau palm grows to heights of 10 metres. The single stem � it is very seldom branched � is ringed by the scars left by the sheathing bases of the fallen leaves. Leaves range from about 1 to 3 metres long. Each is made up of numerous, narrow leaflets 60cm to 1 metre long. The leaves are gathered together in a large head at the top of the stem which is seldom more than 9 in. thick. Flowers are in a dense panicle known as a spadix, which is 30 to 60cm long, and appears at the base of the leaves. The fruit is a small, elliptical, bright red drupe about half an inch long. The Maoris used the nikau leaves in their whares. The top of the stem is fleshy and juicy and is sometimes eaten.
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