From Maori, the common name for Pseudopanax colensoi, a small-leaved understory shrub of New Zealand forests. Orihou is notable for its dramatic juvenile-to-adult leaf transformation — young plants have long, toothed leaves while mature ones have short, rounded leaves — which puzzled early botanists into classifying them as separate species.
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The trampers identified orihou by its distinctive juvenile leaves while scrambling through the beech-forest understory.
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(NZ) The shrub , endemic to New Zealand.
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