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Libocedrus plumosa. Kaikawaka.

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Dacrydium plumosum, Thuja doniana (in Taylor)

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KAWAKA , KAIKAWAKA;  kahikawaka (Best 1907); mokopiko,  tōtara-kiri-kōtukutuku  (both in Williams 1971) 

Taylor 1870 gives the name makopiko "a cypress (Thuja doniana)".

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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
30 October 2023
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