Within its rich rain forest are an abundance of 1,000 year old podocarp trees.

The native host plants are all associated with lowland podocarp forest.

The lake was once surrounded by podocarp forest as the centre of a rich wetland ecosystem.

The climate became cooler, the podocarp forest retreated, and the moa population began to decline.

As if things aren't difficult enough already, the female can only come into breeding condition when a particular plant, the podocarp for instance, is bearing fruit.

The podocarp genera have been reshuffled by various botanists.

Microstrobos is a genus of plant belonging to the podocarp family (Podocarpaceae).

The normal timber used, Totara, is a lightweight native podocarp, which retains its natural oils even when cut down.

In the north of New Zealand the podocarp forests were dominated by the ancient giant kauri.

Otari-Wilton's Bush was originally covered with podocarp broadleaf forest.

The forests around the lakes were dominated by conifers including members of the podocarp pine, araucaria, and cypress families.

It protects the remnants of a larger podocarp coastal forest and a number of rare species of plants.

Further south, the glacier country beckons and the road soon changes from rural countryside to one fringed with the mighty podocarp rainforests.

New Caledonia is an ancient fragment of Gondwana, and is rich in podocarp species.

Podocarpus totara (tōtara) is a species of podocarp tree endemic to New Zealand.

Usually, they breed only every 3-5 years when certain podocarp trees like rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) mast abundantly.

There are 100 hectares of forest made up of original and regenerating podocarp broadleaf forest.

This is a very precious and extensive podocarp forest with abundant birdlife, and with many reminders of the region's early European pioneers.

Today, large parts of the park remain covered in native podocarp forest featuring rimu, totara, kahikatea, matai and miro.

A small remnant of the early podocarp forest is preserved in Barton's Bush in Upper Hutt.

Papatowai is surrounded by native podocarp forest and there are numerous walks in the area to waterfalls, and sand beaches in addition to bushwalks.

The podocarp forest is now mostly sheep and beef farms, with Te Uku Wind Farm around the sources to the south.

Sites where it was found indicate that it inhabited lowland mixed podocarp broadleaf forest, ranging upwards into alpine tundra scrubland.

The road then wends through the tangled podocarp (native evergreens) and beech forest of the Opouri Valley, and climbs 1,700 feet to a plateau.

It is located near the south bank of the Rangitata River, 3 km from Peel Forest, an extensive podocarp forest with abundant birdlife.