The second tier height of 20-30 meters up the tree, which are narrow-minded relatives and adherents

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Imagine - on Earth is a place where nothing has changed since the time of the dinosaurs! bazaar magazine Here the mountains reach incredible heights, almost four thousand meters above the sea, and their slopes covered with thick bottom rain forests of podokarpiv and tree ferns. Here the birds do not fly, and walk on land and climb trees as their ancestors dinosaurs. There are no animals ... and this place called New Zealand.
As the dawn of the era of the dinosaurs - 190 million years ago - the warm sea winds and current are continually saturated with rain clouds poured out on predkovichni forests. The mild climate, north of the parallel of south latitude 38 New Zealand is the warmest temperate zone of the Earth, which is the oldest preserved forest ecosystem of our planet. It practically has not changed since then, when the tops of the crowns of the majestic Kauri trees Diplodocus plucked bazaar magazine juicy pussy or in their shade unfolded old as life itself, hunting scenes Allosaurus ...
Land of dinosaurs rule laid cataclysm, when 65 million years ago the Earth intersected with the flow of asteroids, meteorite showers then fell across its surface, causing global extinction. However, Kauri forests survived, although suffered serious losses. In isolation from all over the world living here has developed in its own way. On the one hand, it has preserved the authenticity of extinct everywhere podokarpovyh forests, which include Kauri. On the other, the direct bazaar magazine descendants of dinosaurs - birds evolved rapidly in this unprecedented bazaar magazine form, populated bazaar magazine all available ecological niches. The absence of land predators, and mammals including only helped them in this.
Although New Zealand is growing bazaar magazine only one type of Kauri (Agathis australis (D.Don) Loudon), and most of them in Borneo and New Caledonia, but this is where they form dense forests. On this day clean kauriyevi forests remain rare and common are mixed forests. It is clear that the latter are secondary - derivatives that are formed after various cuts. However, their structure is striking in its complexity and richness of plant forms that resemble bazaar magazine tropical forests. bazaar magazine
Top and the main layer of the forest up to 50 meters up the magnificent Kauri trees of the family bazaar magazine Podokarpovyh (Podocarpaceae Endl.), Belonging to the gymnosperms, exactly as our fir or fir, but their branches are covered with soft leaves, and not with needles. It is the oldest tree in the world, whose age is 2000 years, and possibly more. Scientists estimate that a centimeter thick trunk, bazaar magazine on average, corresponds to 8.7 years of life, and most of the famous trees had a trunk 22 feet in circumference! Their crown is spreading and do not form dense tent as other trees in this connection the Kauri forests are light, which allows lush growths of the second tier.
The second tier height of 20-30 meters up the tree, which are narrow-minded relatives and adherents Kauri also Podokarpovyh family. In particular, bazaar magazine Tanekahy (Phyllocladus trichomanoides), Rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), Totary (Podocarpus hallii), Miro (Prumnopitys ferruginea). Along with these ancient gymnosperms to the second tier includes evolutionarily younger angiosperms trees, most of which are endemic not just in New Zealand, but only Kauriyevyh forests. The most familiar of these is Tova (Weinmannia silvicola) with family bazaar magazine Kunoniyevyh (Cunoniaceae R.Br.), which reach 15 meters in height and act spivdominantamy Kauriyevyh forests. Tova often form the forest scenes in bloom give it rozhevuvatoho shade. Another interesting tree - it Kanuka, it is called White tea tree or Burґan (Kunzea ericoides) of the myrtle family (Myrtaceae Juss.), Which often grows to 30 m. Usually Kanuka defines bazaar magazine the boundary between the Black Sea littoral beaches and cliffs and forest. This species is widely distributed bazaar magazine in eastern Australia and New Zealand and is very simple to growing conditions, but in the woods it completely displace other species, this is why white tea tree grows in areas unsuitable for other species. Kauriyevyh endemic forest is very interesting bazaar magazine tree Revareva (Knightia excelsa) with family Proteyevyh (Proteaceae Juss.), But if Kauriyi not go above 38 parallel of south latitude, the Revareva gets up to 41 th. Interestingly, the Latin name for the translation into Ukrainian means "mechnytsya wonderful", due to the xiphoid form sheets that we Europeans resemble bazaar magazine the familiar willow. The first European settlers called Revarevu "honey tree" because it is unsurpassed honey. The other two endemic trees are quite common in coastal forests Kauriyevyh - is Hina (Elaeocarpus dentatus) from Eleokarpovyh (Elaeocarpaceae) and Kohekoye (Dysoxylum spectabile), as belonging to the family Meli (Meliaceae Juss.). The second tier is so tight closes, the sun almost did not get under his tent, and any gap that arose napryk