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Art print by acrylic artist Heather Meg.
This greeting card has the words 'Merry Christmas' on the front.
The Pohutakawa tree prefers the immediate shoreline of many parts of the North Island of New Zealand. It has leaves with minute hairs on the underside that defend the tree against any excess of salt in the air, or sea spray. Its branches are often home to the nests of seabirds. "Pohutukawa" is said to mean "splashed by spray" and its honey has an unique salty flavour.
It is often referred to as the New Zealand "Christmas tree" because this is the season when the pohutukawa blooms. Traditionally for Maori to say that a person "has slid down the pohutukawa root" is a poetic way of saying that he has travelled to the world of his ancestors.
This greeting card is supplied with a red coloured envelope.
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