Where found:

• Coastal and lowland forests, common in swamp forests and gullies

• A woody climber attached by roots to trunks of trees or in large masses on the ground
  
• Yellow-green leaves (150cm x 2-2.5cm) crowded in bunches at the ends of the branched stems, spirally arranged
  
• Only flowers in significant numbers every 7-10 years, male and female flowers appear in September to November, with fruit ripening about May, the flowers have sweet smelling edible bracts known as tawhara, female flowers are in cylindrical spikes consisting of many yellowish edible berries known as ureure