Tokanui School's Tree - Totara.

The Ambassador's for the Tokanui School, stand beneath their adopted canopy tree - the totara. This tree is one of the Podocarp family, which are the main canopy trees in our Southland Plains forests.

This totara tree was being smothered by the native creeper, Meuhlenbeckia, but by cutting the stems of the creeper it has mostly died back, and the totara's health should improve from now on.