Manoao Facts

Here is a group of small to medium-sized conifers that are all members of the podocarp family. The medium Manoao tree is 25 metre tall. Bog pine and Pink pine is an abrupt change of the narrow of the Manoao. In English we say heath but for health in Maori it is Manoao.

Maori name: Manoao

Binomial name: Manoao colensoi

Scientific name: Manoao

Botanical name: Silver pine

Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Pinophyta

Family: Podocarpaceae

Silver pine, Westland pine, or White silver pine to New Zealand.

Manoao