Distribution
Karaka is widespread in mainly coastal situations. The tree is endemic to New Zealand, where the original distribution is unclear because of widespread planting by Maori and usually as the result of seed dispersal by birds or Maori plantations near old villages. The tree is common throughout the North and South Islands to Banks Peninsula (43°45′S) and Okarito (43°20′S), on the Three Kings Islands, on Raoul Island in the Kermadecs, and on the Chatham Islands. In the last two localities the presence of the tree is probably the result of Polynesian plantings. The ecological requirements of the species, are those of the laurel forest and like most of their counterparts laurifolia in the world, is a vigorous species with a great ability to populate the habitat that is conducive. Most botanists accept it as native only in the northern half of the North Island.
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