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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at be.

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Speaker 2: Rude climb passes our men in the garden, Hey rude.

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Speaker 3: Hey Jack, not so much in the garden. I'm in

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Speaker 3: the forest.

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Speaker 2: Ah, that sounds pretty good. That's where you like to be, right.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what my place is. That's right. Hey, did you,

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Speaker 3: by any chance notice a couple of weeks ago that

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Speaker 3: the New Zealand arborri Cultural Association did a Tree of

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Speaker 3: the Year competition and it was won by a Northern

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Speaker 3: rata in Carimea. Yeah, on the other side of your parents.

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, it's beautiful. Right.

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Speaker 3: Have you seen the picture.

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Speaker 2: I've seen the picture. It is just absolutely gorgeous. I

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Speaker 2: mean that whole coastline. I mean, I've just I'm a

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Speaker 2: completely complete pathetic softy for that part of the part

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Speaker 2: of the world, the sort of northwest of the South Island.

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Speaker 2: But it is that the photo is gorgeous.

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Speaker 3: Isn't it beautiful? Yeah? So I think Libby's got it

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Speaker 3: on the website, so people, if you haven't seen it,

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Speaker 3: you can ever look at that.

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Speaker 2: But now we should say that there's something that really

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Speaker 2: distinguishes that the tree in the photograph isn't there.

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Speaker 3: It is because it has kind of looks like two

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Speaker 3: trunks and they are ordered in such a way that

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Speaker 3: it looks as if the tree is walking in high heels,

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Speaker 3: no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's a really good description. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: go there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it does look like that, So there you go.

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Speaker 3: So first of all, a little story about this rata.

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Speaker 3: This is the Northern Rata that occurs in the north

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Speaker 3: of the or in the Northern Island and the north

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Speaker 3: of the South Island. It's well, actually, by the way,

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Speaker 3: it's one of those trees that can be come up

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Speaker 3: to one thousand years old. It's huge and tall as

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Speaker 3: so it's a fabulous thing. But it's a myrtle. So

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Speaker 3: it belongs to the group of pul Ta Kawa. It

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Speaker 3: belongs to the climbing ratas and the bikes rata and

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Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff. But this particular Northern Rata

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Speaker 3: is quite an amazing tree because it is kind of

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Speaker 3: like an epiphyte, which means it lives or starts life

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Speaker 3: living on other trees. Yeah, which I think is pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: So imagine, yeah, that's how that works. And then what

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Speaker 3: happens is when when it starts to germinate somewhere from

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Speaker 3: a leaf or a branch or whatever from another it's

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Speaker 3: from a host tree, it sends down roots down that

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Speaker 3: literally a number of roots downwards to the ground, and

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Speaker 3: it sends the leaves up the canopy of the of

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Speaker 3: the of the host tree as well. And then of

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Speaker 3: course finally at the end the roots trees of this

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Speaker 3: rather get into the soil and finally can feed off

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Speaker 3: the soil the nitrogen, the phosphates and all that sort

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Speaker 3: of stuff, and then they start really growing. It's absolutely wonderful.

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Speaker 3: Now one of those roots becomes dominant, dormant dominant, sorry,

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Speaker 3: not dormant dominant, and that is the one that actually

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Speaker 3: makes that tree really start to put the passon to

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Speaker 3: grow up and become old. Now what happened here is

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Speaker 3: we've actually had to go with a couple of guys

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Speaker 3: like Bread and Stephen King old sort of old of

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Speaker 3: arboris to see how did this thing actually became a

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Speaker 3: walking tree, what it came from, how did how did

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Speaker 3: that work? And they have a feeling that this one

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Speaker 3: basically got on a lean and needed to, if you like,

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Speaker 3: redress itself with another trunk to have its own balance back.

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Speaker 3: I think that it's such a clever trick. So this

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Speaker 3: this tree looked after its own self. And the cool

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Speaker 3: thing is, if you look very carefully on the bottom

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Speaker 3: of the left leg, you'll see another green tree taking root.

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Speaker 3: And that, believe it or not, is a boutakawa uses

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Speaker 3: that rata to grow up. Isn't it?

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Speaker 1: This so clever?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, So we're going to make sure this photo

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Speaker 2: is up at news so everyone can see exactly what

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Speaker 2: we're talking about. It's utterly gorgeous. Believe that they can

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Speaker 2: live for like maybe a thousand years a northern rata.

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Speaker 3: There you are, yes, and don't forget I put it.

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Speaker 3: I put a couple of wonderful wonder or email addresses

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Speaker 3: there or what do you call it, websites on it

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Speaker 3: if you're interested in the strites. It's brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Roud. We will catch you again

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Speaker 2: very soon. Road climb past in the garden. It's almost

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Speaker 2: eleven o'clock.

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