The following list of trees and shrubs can be readily grown in New Zealand gardens:
Agathis australis
Common names: kauri
Family: Araucariaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Alectryon excelsus subsp. excelsus
Common names: New Zealand ash, tītoki
Family: Sapindaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Aristotelia serrata
Common names: makomako, wineberry
Family: Elaeocarpaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Beilschmiedia tarairi
Common names: taraire
Family: Lauraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Beilschmiedia tawa
Common names: tawa
Family: Lauraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Brachyglottis hectorii
Common names: Hector’s tree daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Brachyglottis huntii
Common names: rautini, Chatham Island Christmas tree
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Vulnerable
Brachyglottis monroi
Common names: Monro’s groundsel
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Brachyglottis repanda
Common names: rangiora, bushman’s toilet paper, bushman’s friend
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Carmichaelia australis
Common names: common native broom, mākaka, maukoro, tainoka, taunoka, taranagahape
Family: Fabaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Carmichaelia glabrescens
Common names: pink broom
Family: Fabaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Carmichaelia kirkii
Common names: Climbing broom, Kirk’s broom
Family: Fabaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Vulnerable
Carmichaelia stevensonii
Common names: weeping tree broom, cord broom
Family: Fabaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Endangered
Carmichaelia williamsii
Common names: William’s Broom, Giant-flowered broom
Family: Fabaceae
Status: At Risk – Relict
Carpodetus serratus
Common names: marbleleaf, putaputawētā, piripiriwhata
Family: Rousseaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Clianthus puniceus
Common names: kākābeak, kōwhai ngutu-kākā, kākā beak
Family: Fabaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Critical
Coprosma acerosa
Common names: sand coprosma, tātaraheke
Family: Rubiaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Coprosma intertexta
Family: Rubiaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Coprosma linariifolia
Common names: mikimiki, yellow wood
Family: Rubiaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Coprosma lucida
Common names: karamū, shining karamū
Family: Rubiaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Coprosma propinqua var. propinqua
Common names: mingimingi
Family: Rubiaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Coprosma repens
Common names: taupata, looking glass plant, mirror plant
Family: Rubiaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Coprosma rubra
Family: Rubiaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Cordyline australis
Common names: cabbage tree, tī, tī kōuka, palm lily
Family: Asparagaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Cordyline banksii
Common names: tī ngahere, cabbage tree, tī rakau
Family: Asparagaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Cordyline indivisa
Common names: tōī, broad-leaved cabbage tree, mountain cabbage tree
Family: Asparagaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Cordyline obtecta
Common names: Three Kings cabbage tree
Family: Asparagaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Corokia cotoneaster
Common names: korokio, wire-nettting bush
Family: Argophyllaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Corokia macrocarpa
Common names: hokotaka, whakataka
Family: Argophyllaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Corynocarpus laevigatus
Common names: karaka, kopi
Family: Corynocarpaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Dacrycarpus dacrydioides
Common names: kahikatea, white pine
Family: Podocarpaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Dacrydium cupressinum
Common names: rimu, red pine
Family: Podocarpaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Discaria toumatou
Common names: matagouri, tūmatakuru
Family: Rhamnaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Dodonaea viscosa
Common names: akeake
Family: Sapindaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Didymocheton spectabilis
Common names: kohekohe, New Zealand mahogany
Family: Meliaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Elaeocarpus dentatus var. dentatus
Common names: hīnau
Family: Elaeocarpaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Elaeocarpus hookerianus
Common names: pōkākā
Family: Elaeocarpaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Elingamita johnsonii
Common names: Elingamita
Family: Primulaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Entelea arborescens
Common names: whau
Family: Malvaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Fuchsia excorticata
Common names: kōtukutuku, tree fuchsia
Family: Onagraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Griselinia littoralis
Common names: broadleaf, kāpuka, papauma
Family: Griseliniaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Griselinia lucida
Common names: puka, akapuka
Family: Griseliniaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Halocarpus biformis
Common names: pink pine, yellow pine
Family: Podocarpaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Helichrysum parvifolium
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Helichrysum plumeum
Family: Asteraceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Hoheria angustifolia
Common names: narrow-leaved houhere
Family: Malvaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Pseudopanax chathamicus
Common names: hoho, Chatham Island lancewood
Family: Araliaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Pseudopanax crassifolius
Common names: horoeka, lancewood
Family: Araliaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Pseudopanax ferox
Common names: fierce lancewood
Family: Araliaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Pseudopanax laetus
Family: Araliaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Pseudopanax lessonii
Common names: Houpara
Family: Araliaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Pseudowintera colorata
Common names: red horopito, mountain horopito
Family: Winteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Quintinia serrata
Common names: tāwheowheo, quintinia
Family: Paracryphiaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Raoulia eximia
Common names: vegetable sheep
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Rhabdothamnus solandri
Common names: New Zealand gloxinia, taurepo, kaikaiatua, mata, matata, waiuatua
Family: Gesneriaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Rhopalostylis sapida
Common names: nīkau
Family: Arecaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Schefflera digitata
Common names: patatē, patē, seven-finger
Family: Araliaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Solanum aviculare var. aviculare
Common names: poroporo
Family: Solanaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Endangered
Sophora longicarinata
Common names: limestone kōwhai
Family: Fabaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Sophora microphylla
Common names: kōwhai, weeping kōwhai, small-leaved kōwhai
Family: Fabaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Sophora prostrata
Common names: kōwhai, prostrate kōwhai
Family: Fabaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Sophora tetraptera
Common names: kōwhai, large-leaved kōwhai
Family: Fabaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Teucrium parvifolium
Common names: teucridium
Family: Lamiaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Veronica albicans
Common names: hebe
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Veronica armstrongii
Common names: Armstrong’s whipcord
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Critical
Veronica benthamii
Common names: Bentham’s hebe
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Veronica biggarii
Common names: Biggar’s hebe
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Veronica chathamica
Common names: Chatham Island koromiko
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Veronica decumbens
Common names: hebe
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Veronica diosmifolia
Common names: hebe
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Veronica elliptica
Common names: kōkōmuka, shore hebe, shore koromiko
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Veronica hulkeana subsp. hulkeana
Common names: NZ lilac
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Veronica lavaudiana
Common names: Banks Peninsula sun hebe
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Veronica macrantha var. macrantha
Common names: hebe
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Veronica odora
Common names: hebe
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Veronica salicifolia
Common names: koromiko
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Veronica speciosa
Common names: purple hebe
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Veronica topiaria
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Veronica townsonii
Common names: hebe
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Vitex lucens
Common names: pūriri
Family: Lamiaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Pterophylla racemosa
Common names: kāmahi, tawheo, tawhero, tawherowhero
Family: Cunoniaceae
Status: Not Threatened
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