Key Identification Features
- Taraire is a very distinct species with a tropical appearance.
- It can be distinguished from all other indigenous New Zealand trees and shrubs by its broad dark-green leaves with distinctive depressed veins, and its large, erect, plum-like dark purple fruits.
- Its leaves are dark green and glossy, with bubble-like structures called bullae on their upper surface; this distinctive feature gives the species its specific epithet "bullata".
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