The mountain’s name was inspired by a native Totara tree that Campbell saw during his first visit to the park in 1840. After it was cut down, new trees were planted, with one Monterey pine ...

The walking tree’s unusual forked trunk ... One of the finalists was a massive tōtara (Podocarpus totara) growing on the site of the first house in the South Island town of Geraldine.

The track meanders through dense bush to a huge old totara tree then drops downhill to a lagoon where a boardwalk crosses still waters entirely enclosed by dense native bush. "Quiet, calm and ...