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The Rhopalostylis sapida or more commonly known as the iconic native nikau, is a slow growing tropical looking palm. It has an exotic look that is best suited for tropical or native plantings. Nikau prefers shaded gullies, depressions and the bottom of steep slopes where moisture is abundant. Nikau natural range is coastal and lowland forest as far south as the top of the South Island west coast at Karamea, making it the worlds most southern palm trees. Nikau's are frost tender and need to be planted under cover of other trees if frosts are likely.
The nïkau is very slow-growing. Research conducted in lowland forests near Auckland found it takes 40–50 years to begin to form a trunk and about 200 years to reach 10 metres tall.