How fast do Titoki trees grow?
approx 300-500 mm per year
The Titoki will grow to 4-8m but responds well to trimming and shaping and in suitable conditions will grow approx 300-500 mm per year. As another rough guide you would expect a Titoki to be about 5m high after 10 years.
Are Titoki trees native to NZ?
Alectryon excelsus, commonly known as tītoki, is a shiny-leaved tree native to New Zealand. It is in the family Sapindaceae. It lives in coastal and lowland forests throughout most of the North Island and from Banks Peninsula to central Westland in the South Island.
Is Titoki an evergreen?
Uses: Titoki have been used extensively as street trees but make a bold evergreen shade tree in the garden. Titoki respond well to trimming and shaping and can be used as a pleached or stilt hedge or as large topiary subjects.
What is Titoki good for?
In the case of titoki the main product is an oil which Maori used to anoint their bodies. This is also beneficial for skin afflictions, painful joints and earache and was taken internally as a laxative. The Maori also used the wood for adze hafts.
Can you eat Titoki berries?
The seed capsule splits open to reveal a bright, shiny black seed perched in a fleshy red base that looks like a ripe raspberry, and almost good enough to eat. Historical records tell us Māori children did eat this fleshy fruit, but it had a very bitter taste and its nutritional value is doubtful.
What is eating my Titoki leaves?
The Titoki moth, Vanicela disjunctella (Lepidoptera: Roeslerstammiidae), caterpillars only feed on titoki Alectryon excelsus (Sapindaceae). The young caterpillars tunnel in young leaves forming serpentine mines. Older caterpillars hide in rolled edges of leaves and chew young leaves creating ragged edges.
What does Titoki mean in English?
: a New Zealand tree (Alectryon excelsum) with large panicles of reddish flowers.
What does Titoki mean in Maori?
nounWord forms: plural titoki. a New Zealand evergreen tree, Alectryon excelsus, with a spreading crown and glossy green leaves. Also called: New Zealand ash. Word origin. Māori.
What does titoki mean in Maori?
Can you eat titoki berries?