My lancewood is growing up - apparently it is almost an adolescent.! And I thought I had survived the teenage years!
"The Horoeka – the lancewood (Pseudopanax crassifolius). Beginning life as a single-stemmed plant with one-metre-long stiff, drooping leaves, it changes when its growing tip is about three metres above the ground. The plant begins to branch and develops short (20 centimetre), upright leaves."
Reference: Joanna Orwin. 'Shrubs and small trees of the forest - Species with juvenile and adult forms', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 8-Jul-13
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/interactive/13809/growth-forms-of-lancewood
