Emergent podocarps include rimu, miro and matai. Some may be over 1,000 years old. The leaves are eaten by kakako. The plant favours alluvial and swampy places where it forms impenetrable thickets used by the birds for nesting. It grows up the stems of hosts in an anti-clockwise direction and can grow up to 5cm a day in summer.
Supplejack produces bright red berries once it emerges from the shade of the forest canopy.
It is notable for its bright blue colour, which fades with age. He changed the basic understanding of atomic science on three occasions by explaining the perplexing problem of naturally occurring radioactivity, determined the structure of the atom, and changed one element into another. Nobel Prize medal which Rutherford received in 1908, and is overlaid with a graph plotting the results from Rutherford's investigations into naturally occurring radioactivity. Eglinton Valley is located within the Fiordland National Park on Te Anau-Milford Sound highway and is home to a particularly fine stand of Red Beech and a thriving population of Yellowhead. The caterpillar form is strikingly coloured but just as skilled at disguising itself.