Hukutaia Domain is 4.5 hectares of native bush remnant, featuring trees such as ancient pūriri & mighty tawa, & many varities of ferns & fungi. It provides a glimpse of how the local area looked before cultivation of the landscape.

Taketakerau - The Burial Tree

At the heart stands Taketakerau, the estimated 2000 year old burial tree, it was used by Upokorehe as a place to store the bones of their distinguished dead. In the early days of European settlement, when a storm damaged the tree & exposed the bones, they were removed by the local iwi for reburial elsewhere.