Summary ²

Kunzea robusta, commonly known as rawirinui or kanuka, is a tree in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to New Zealand. It has rough, stringy or corky bark, lance-shaped leaves that are darker on the upper surface, flowers in compact groups of up to thirty, each with five or six white petals and about thiry five stamens of varying lengths.

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1. (c) Jon Sullivan, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/11444110735/
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunzea_robusta

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• New Zealand Plant Conservation Network
• Peter de Lange revision of NZ kanuka
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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