This is the mountain neinei (Dracophyllum traversii) in flower. The mountain neinei is one weird tree, with tangled, twisted branches topped with wild-haired clusters of leaves. Then in spring and summer, they sprout these spiky, conical flowers, which gives the mountain neinei another name: the pineapple tree. Mountain neinei grow at high altitude, towards the bush line, and there’s a lot of them mixed in with the beech trees on the way up Mt Arthur.
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