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.

  • Acaena pallida (sand bidibidi)
  • Aciphylla squarrosa (speargrass)
  • Apodasmia similis (oioi)
  • Aristotelia serrata (wineberry)*
  • Astelia fragrans (kakaha, bush lily)
  • Austroderia fulvida (toetoe)*
  • Austroderia toetoe (toetoe)
  • Beilschmiedia tawa (tawa)
  • Brachyglottis repanda (rangiora)
  • Carex dissita (forest sedge)
  • Carex flagellifera
  • Carex geminata (cutty grass)
  • Carex secta (pūkio)*
  • Carex uncinata (kamu, hook grass)
  • Carex virgata (swamp sedge)
  • Carpodetus serratus (putaputawētā)
  • Coprosma acerosa (sand coprosma)
  • Coprosma areolata (thin-leaved coprosma)
  • Coprosma autumnalis (kanono)
  • Coprosma lucida (karamu, shining karamu)
  • Coprosma propinqua (mingimingi)*
  • Coprosma repens (taupata)*
  • Coprosma rhamnoides (mingimingi, twiggy coprosma)*
  • 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 (kōtukutuku, tree fuchsia)
  • Griselinia littoralis (kapuka)
  • Veronica parviflora (tree hebe)*
  • Veronica stricta (koromiko)*
  • Hedycarya arborea (pigeonwood)
  • Kunzea robusta (kānuka)*
  • Knightia excelsa (rewarewa)
  • Laurelia novae-zelandiae (pukatea)
  • Leptospermum scoparium (mānuka)*
  • Libertia ixioides (mīkoikoi, New Zealand iris)
  • Melicope ternata (wharangi)
  • Melicytus crassifolius (māhoe, thick leaved māhoe)
  • Melicytus ramiflorus (māhoe)
  • Muehlenbeckia complexa (pohuehue)
  • Myoporum laetum (ngaio)
  • Myrsine australis (māpou)
  • Olearia solandri (coastal tree daisy)
  • Olearia paniculata (akiraho)>
  • Ozothamnus leptophyllus (tauhinu)
  • Pennantia corymbosa (kaikōmako)
  • Phormium cookianum (mountain flax)*
  • Phormium tenax (flax)
  • Pimelea prostrata (sand daphne)
  • Piper excelsum (kawakawa)
  • Pittosporum eugenioides (lemonwood)*
  • Pittosporum tenuifolium (kōhūhū)*
  • Plagianthus divaricatus (mākaka, salt marsh ribbonwood)
  • Poa anceps (broad leaved poa)
  • Poa cita (silver tussock)*
  • Podocarpus totara (tōtara)
  • Prumnopitys taxifolia (matai)
  • Pseudopanax arboreus (five finger)*
  • Rhopalostylis sapida (nikau)
  • Schefflera digitata (patē)
  • Sophora microphylla (kōwhai)*
  • Spinifex sericeus (spinifex)