NZ Native Silver Beech or Tāwhai
Compact growing native beech tree often found in higher altitude alpine areas. Has an attractive black trunk with silver horizontal lines and often with a Zen-like interesting structure. Foliage gives a silvery shimmering look especially in spring. An impressive and hardy native tree. Hardy, evergreen, grows to 5 x 3m.
Suitable for: Group and specimen planting.
Features: Attractive trunk colour and form with silver shine to leaf.
Botanical Name: NOTHOFAGUS menziesii
For over 100 years we’ve been focused on growing the very best trees and shrubs for New Zealanders. They can enhance any landscape. They can create an easy, instant sense of heritage. They are used by commercial landscapers to complete architectural visions, delivered to wholesale nurseries all over New Zealand and sold to residential customers who want that perfect garden.
Their home is over 30 acres of rich Southland soil and it’s here you’ll find the South Island's largest nursery, with an extended collection of natives, deciduous trees, fruit trees, plants and shrubs.
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