Mountain cabbage trees and native mountain cedars in beech forest. Photo NC.

In the western part of the park mountain beech forest is commonly interspersed with specimens of theses two species. The mountain cabbage tree Cordyline indivisa (Maori tooii) has distinctly broader leaves than the common lowland cabbage tree Cordyline australis (Maori ti kouka). The cedars are kaikawaka (Librocedrus bidwillii), the only New Zealand representatives of the cedar family with their lowland relatives kawaka (L. plumosa).