Rimu Definition
Where it lives: Rimu is a tree that grow through out New Zealand including Stuart Island.
Name: It's Binomial name is Dacrydium cupressinum.
Uses: A long time time ago, rimu was a main source of wood for New Zealand, including furniture and building houses. However, many of New Zealand's original stands of rimu have been teared down, and recent government policies band to chop down of rimu in public forests, though allowing limited cutting down trees on private land.
Protection (Conservation): It is a lc that means least concerned that means our tree is protected.
Traditional uses: The perfume leaves of this wood were used in vapour baths.
Maori important uses: MEDICINAL:
Gum used to stop bleeding from wounds
Leaves. A lotion for wounds made with rimu and tawa bark and tutu leaves, boiled together.
Spruce beer made with rimu and mānuka used by Captain Cook.
FOOD: This fruit is much prized by the natives, and the smallness of the size is made up by its abundance; this tree produces a resin very bitter, but eatable. The wood also has the same qualities, an infusion might be used for beer.
DOMESTIC:
20 combs made of rimu among museum artefacts he tested.
CONSTRUCTION: Timber tree. Housing, cabinetmaking.
FISHING AND HUNTING: Long war spears made from rimu. Manufacturing process described in.
Heartwood used for making hunting spears.
Among Ngapuhi, soot from burning heartwood of rimu or kauri used mixed with shark-oil to make black paint for canoes. Timber used in canoe making.
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