Catmint (Nepeta racemosa racemosa)
Description
Kāmahi bears racemes of small, pink or white flowers from July to January. Fruits are small capsules, 4–6 mm 0.16–0.24 in long, ripening from October to May.1Kāmahi generally occurs with other broadleaf trees, at times acting as a pioneer species which is eventually succeeded by the southern beeches Nothofagus spp.or podocarps. It reaches 25 m 82 ft or more in the Catlins of the south-eastern South Island. In forests to the west of the Southern Alps it codominates with southern rātā Metrosideros umbellata and black beech N. solandri.3 A closely related tree, tōwai or tawhero (W. silvicola), replaces kāmahi in the North Island north of latitude 38°S.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Lamiales
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Family: Lamiaceae
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Genus: Nepeta
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