Libocedrus plumosa. Kaikawaka.
Previous names
Dacrydium plumosum, Thuja doniana (in Taylor)
Māori names
KAWAKA , KAIKAWAKA; kahikawaka (Best 1907); mokopiko, tōtara-kiri-kōtukutuku (both in Williams 1971)
Taylor 1870 gives the name makopiko "a cypress (Thuja doniana)".
Domestic
Picture frames. Wood dark-coloured, beautifully grained, close and heavy. Believed to be very valuable (Colenso 1868a).
Wallace 1989 found a fernroot beater, a maul and a teka made from Libocedrus spp. among museum artefacts he tested.
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28 May 2007
1 July 2020