Dancing Leaves: The story of New Zealand's cabbage tree, ti kouka

Lavishly designed, the book features numerous illustrations ranging from the author's magnificent colour photographs to reproductions of the tree in art, sculpture, and popular culture. It also looks at conservation, the future of cabbage trees in the New Zealand landscape, and examples of cabbage trees notable for their great size or their particular significance in the Maori world, as well as trees planted to mark significant events or locations.

Philip Simpson is a former Department of Conservation botanist. His interest in cabbage trees spans more than 20 years, including work to investigate widespread deaths of the trees since the 1980s. This book was written during a Stout Fellowship at Victoria University.