As Tall as a Tree
Our forest giants are massive! Kahikatea trees can grow up to 8Om in height! Often it can be difficult to visualise just how big something is… so let’s compare the size of a mighty Kahikatea to some of our native species.
In this activity we’ll be using maths to figure out how many individual native species would fit into 8Om… for example, Rangiora leaves can be up to 25cm long. That means that it would take 320 Rangiora leaves stacked end-to-end to be as tall as a Kahikatea tree! Give it a go:
