Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

Phyllocladus glaucus

TOATOA 

Kirk (1886) suggests that the phyllodia (false leaves) of this probably contains large amounts of tannin

Wallace 1989 found 2 bowls, 3 fernroot beaters, 2 mauls, 3 adze helves, 1 eel club, 1 teka made of Phyllocladus species among museum artefacts he tested. Seemingly an unusual choice for mauls, because a light wood. But mauls found waterlogged in swamps - may have been kept wet as then their density increases markedly (p.226).