Along the ridgeline

On the walk up to the Mt Arthur hut, the track goes along a ridge. Here the beech trees mix with mountain neinei trees; there’s a large mountain neinei on the right-hand side of the track in the photo. Dracophyllum traversii is also called the pineapple tree. My first thought on seeing them was “Dr Seuss trees!” and they really do look like the real-life version of the Truffula tree, with their twisted branches and tufts of grassy leaves.