Oak Park Conservatory groups ("Cereus", "Opuntia", and "Pereskia"), plus succulents including "Agave", "Crassula", succulent euphorbias, "Gasteria", "Haworthia", and "Kalanchoe". Woody plants in this room include olive, etrog, fig, date palm, bay and pomegranate. The conservatory's orchids and ferns collection holds orchids, Australian tree ferns and other tropic and sub-tropic fern species, as well as begonias, "Clivia", Ponderosa lemon, sea grape, "Strelitzia reginae", and "Syzygium". The rainforest collection includes "Anthurium", aroids, banana, cycads, dracaenas, ferns, fig trees, "Monstera deliciosa", palms (lady, fishtail, fan, and Canary Island date), papaya, "Peperomia", "Pilea", spider plants, as well as a pond with koi, goldfish, and turtles. In addition
Actinidia deliciosa Cultivation spread from China in the early 20th century when seeds were introduced to New Zealand by Isabel Fraser, the principal of Wanganui Girls' College, who had been visiting mission schools in China. The seeds were planted in 1906 by a Wanganui nurseryman, Alexander Allison, with the vines first fruiting in 1910. People who tasted the fruit thought it had a gooseberry flavour, so began to call it the Chinese gooseberry, but being from the genus "Actinidia", it is not related to the gooseberry family, Grossulariaceae. The familiar cultivar "Actinidia deliciosa" 'Hayward' was developed by Hayward Wright in Avondale, New