Rata Tree

On Monday the 8th of July,
I finally finished my artwork of the Rata tree
that we saw when we were on the Tawa track at Camp Kaitawa.

A Rata tree starts off as a seed then a blows into a treetop. Its
roots grow from the treetop down to the ground. Then it wraps around the tree then eventually strangles and suffocates the host tree to death. Over a few years the inside of the tree rots out and then turns hollow.