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NZ Plants

Fuscospora fusca - tawhai, tawai, red beech

Southern beech family: Nothofagaceae

Fuscospora fusca  is a large forest tree with thick furrowed bark that often has buttress at the base of the trunk.  Leaves are slightly leathery to the touch and have  long pointed marginal teeth. Formerly placed in the genus Nothofagus.
An endemic species found from the middle of the North Island to the lower South Island.
 

 Vegetative characteristics

Reproductive characteristics

Plant form: tree up to 30 m

Arrangement of parts: symmetric

Leaf form: undivided, broadly oval

Flower size: 2-3 mm diam.

Leaf size: 2-4 cm

Tepals (sepals indistinguishable from petals): 5

Leaf arrangement: singly along stem

Sexuality: unisexual on the same plant

Leaf attachment: stipule

Stamens: 8-11

Leaf margin: toothed

Ovary: below petals

Leaf surface: hairs; domatia pores on undersurface

Fruit: dry


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