Kauri

Also known as New Zealand Kauri, Southern Kauri

Kauri are majestic coniferous giant trees native to northern New Zealand, famed for their massive trunk girths and smooth grey bark that sheds in thick flakes. Mature trees form dense canopy emergent crowns, shedding sticky resin that hardens into amber-like kauri gum on the forest floor over centuries. Today, these ancient ecosystem anchors face severe pressure from kauri dieback disease, a microscopic soil-borne pathogen that starves trees from the roots up.