Tane Mahuta

Tane Mahuta "Lord" or "God" of the forest has his roots in Maori legend and is the largest known kauri tree in the world and estimated to be 2,000 years old. Standing at over 51 meters high, it has a girth of nearly 14 meters. This forest is the home of Tane Mahuta, the country's largest kauri tree, which is approximately 2,000 years old and still growing. Nearly 18 meters to the first branch and 4.4 metres in diameter, Tane Mahuta is rightly called 'The Lord of the Forest'.In Māori mythology, Tāne (also called Tāne Mahuta, Tāne Nui a Rangi, and several other names) is the god of forests and of birds, and the son of Ranginui and Papatūanuku, the sky father and the earth mother, who lie in a tight embrace. ... On Tahiti, Tane was the god of peace and beauty. Tane Mahuta is the largest living Kauri tree in terms of volume. Awesome in size, approximately 1,250 years old, this tree is a wonderful sight. 

To Tane Mahuta is a two-minute walk from State Highway 12 in Waipoua Forest on the Kauri Coast. Feb 17, 2016, There is a great variety of form among gums, some species being just shrubs, some great sprawling trees, and others pencil-straight forest giants. ... But even before that—before anyone thought of planting forestry trees in New Zealand because our native forests seemed inexhaustible—eucalypts were being grown Kauri trees are an endangered type of tree that are literally a forest giant. They are absolutely huge!!

Kauri trees grow naturally throughout many in the northern part of New Zealand.