Alpine Aotearoa - Southern Alps and Top of the South sectors
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- Date: 30th December 2021
- Location: New Zealand
- Categories: Nature Tours, Botanical Tours
Highlights
Southern Alps Sector
- Lush alpine herbfields of Fiordland
- cushion flora on Old Man Range
- Scree and boulderfield flora on Ohau Range and Mt Hutt
- Alpine daisies and speargrasses in Aoraki National park
- Arthur's Pass National Park
Top of the South Sector
- dryland alpine flora of Lake Tennyson and Mt St Patrick
- the mountains of Nelson Lakes National Park
- Mt Arthur, Kahurangi National Park
- Black Birch - blue and giant 'vegetable sheep', scree vegetation
- Penwiper plants, Notothlaspi rosulatum
![Upper Hollyford Valley tussocklands](https://asset.turboweb.co.nz/91/cache/file/cqc74el8esjgzhd3ih8i/1a6a5458b8c71af765cc20c7e24ad633/Hollyford%20Valley.jpg)
![Boulderfield flora, Ohau Range](https://asset.turboweb.co.nz/91/cache/file/gqfh94itcmfecjgkq602/1a6a5458b8c71af765cc20c7e24ad633/Ohau%20Range.jpg)
![Speargrass and buttercups, Hooker Valley, Aoraki National Park](https://asset.turboweb.co.nz/91/cache/file/qota1g14qm3k1eeu6n5e/1a6a5458b8c71af765cc20c7e24ad633/Aciphylla%20colensoi%20%2C%20Aoraki%20NP.jpg)
![Cushion Flora, Old man Range summit plateau](https://asset.turboweb.co.nz/91/cache/file/sanc254hm80lhliddpnd/1a6a5458b8c71af765cc20c7e24ad633/Summit%20of%20Old%20Man%20Range.jpg)
![Apine grasslands Kahurangi National Park](https://asset.turboweb.co.nz/91/cache/file/opd2fc10sjw7s36brs34/1a6a5458b8c71af765cc20c7e24ad633/IMG_3307.jpg)
![Giant vegetable 'sheep' - Haastia pulvinaris, Blackbirch](https://asset.turboweb.co.nz/91/cache/file/ua7ci6i4ru4qg3ayrfub/1a6a5458b8c71af765cc20c7e24ad633/IMG_6682.jpg)