What vegetation and soil types does New Zealand have?

Answer 1

New Zealand has many, many different vegetation and soil types. Beech forest (Nothofagus spp.) and podocarp (and kauri) dominated forest are two of the most common forest types.

New Zealand also has very erosion-prone soil.

Answer 2

It is mostly the Deciduous Forest. Please add more biomes if you can :)

there are also expanses of grassland throughout the country :]

Also mountains, temperate rain forests, marine reefs, and even grassland.

Answer 3

The forest is evergreen (with a couple of exceptions), and broadleaf. There is a small number of conifer species.

The NZ forest shares its ancestry with that of S America, with a leavening of species from the tropics.

The lands above the forest fringe (generally above 1000m or so) are tussock, with many other alpine herbs and shrublands. Notable in the alpines are the giant Ranunculus, and Raoulia.

Above that again are the mosses and lichens of the environment that offers little encouragement to vegetation.

Giant kelp is a conspicuous feature of the near tidal zone.

Answer 4

Below the upper forest line, the trees are essentially all evergreen, both broadleaf and gymnosperm. A good understorey of mosses and ferns, some of the ferns reaching 10m in height.

Above the bushline are tussock grasslands, gradually tapering to the permanent snowline. With many herb plants there as well. On the lower and dryer lowlands, once again are the tussock plants, now much modified by introduced vegetation.

There are numerous plants quite specific to New Zealand.