The leaves were rubbed to soften them; then applied as an ointment to cuts, sores and cracks in the skin. Nursing mothers ate the boiled inner shoot and top of the stem. This mixture was also given to children for colic.

RIMU - Red pine

Dacrydium cupressinum

(Largest Rimu tree is in the Marlborough Sounds)

With the exception of the kauri, this is the most useful timber tree in New Zealand. It grows from the semi—tropical forests of the far north to the hill slopes of Stewart Island. It reaches t...

RIMU - Red pine

Dacrydium cupressinum

With the exception of the kauri, this is the most useful timber tree in New Zealand. It grows from the semi—tropical forests of the far north to the hill slopes of Stewart Island. It reaches to a height of a hundred feet or more, with a strai...

This variety is covered in masses of scarlet flowers, but it may bloom only once in three years. It has the same medicinal value as northern rata.