Native plant list for orders

Use this list to help with your plant selection for your volunteer planting work.

Plants from Berhampore Nursery

We cannot guarantee that exactly what you order will be provided, but we will do our best to match what you have ordered with available stock from the nursery and your site conditions.

Plant limits are:

  • up to a total of 500 plants for environmental community groups
  • 10-20 (maximum 30) for volunteer residents planting on public land and road reserves.

Species in bold and asterisked are the main plants we produce in large numbers at Berhampore Nursery as they have proven to be successful in Wellington.

To learn more about the following plants, use the Search Flora tool on the New Zealand Plant Conservation website.

  • Aciphylla squarrosa (speargrass)
  • Apodasmia similis (oioi)
  • Aristotelia serrata (wineberry)*
  • Austroderia fulvida (toetoe)*
  • Austroderia toetoe (toetoe)
  • Beilschmiedia tawa (tawa)
  • Carex dissita (forest sedge)
  • Carex geminata (cutty grass)
  • Carex secta (pūkio)*
  • Carex virgata (swamp sedge)
  • Carpodetus serratus (putaputawētā)
  • Coprosma acerosa (sand coprosma)
  • Coprosma grandifolia (kanono)
  • Coprosma propinqua (mingimingi)*
  • Coprosma repens (taupata)*
  • Coprosma robusta (karamū)*
  • Cordyline australis (cabbage tree)
  • Cyperus ustulatus (giant umbrella sedge)
  • Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (kahikatea)
  • Dianella nigra (tūrutu)
  • Disphyma australe (horokaka)
  • Dysoxylum spectabile (kohekohe)
  • Euphorbia glauca (shore spurge)
  • Ficinia nodosa (wīwī)*
  • Ficinia spiralis (pīngao)
  • Fuchsia excorticata (tree fuchsia)
  • Griselinia littoralis (kapuka)*
  • Hebe parviflora (tree hebe)*
  • Hebe stricta (koromiko)*
  • Hedycarya arborea (pigeonwood)
  • Juncus pallidus (giant rush, leafless rush)
  • Kunzea ericoides (kānuka)*
  • Knightia excelsa (rewarewa)
  • Laurelia novae-zelandiae (pukatea)
  • Leptospermum scoparium (mānuka)*
  • Lophomyrtus bullata (ramarama)
  • Melicope ternata (wharangi)
  • Melicytus ramiflorus (māhoe)
  • Metrosideros robusta (northern rātā)
  • Muehlenbeckia astonii (shrubby tororaro)
  • Muehlenbeckia complexa (pohuehue)
  • Myoporum laetum (ngaio)
  • Myrsine australis (matipo)
  • Olearia solandri (coastal tree daisy)
  • Olearia paniculata (akiraho)*
  • Ozothamnus leptophyllus (tauhinu)
  • Phormium cookianum (mountain flax)*
  • Phormium tenax (flax)
  • Pimelea prostrata ssp. seismica (sand daphne)
  • Piper excelsum (kawakawa)
  • Pittosporum eugenioides (lemonwood)*
  • Pittosporum tenuifolium (kōhūhū)*
  • Poa cita (silver tussock)*
  • Podocarpus totara (tōtara)
  • Prumnopitys taxifolia (matai)
  • Pseudopanax arboreus (five finger)*
  • Schefflera digitata (patē)
  • Sophora microphylla (kōwhai)*
  • Spinifex sericeus (spinifex)