{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Tāwhai
| image = NothofagusMenziesii003.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Fagales]]
| familia = [[Nothofagaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Nothofagus]]''
| species = '''''N. menziesii'''''
| binomial = ''Nothofagus menziesii''
| binomial_authority = ([[Joseph Dalton Hooker|Hook.f.]]) [[Anders Sandøe Ørsted (botanist)|Oerst.]]
}} 


[[Image:Silver Beech.JPG|thumb|left|240px|Kei [[Maungatautari]] ēnei Tāwhai e tupu ana]]Ko te '''Tāwhai''' he rākau whakakake o [[Aotearoa]]. He rākau roa, he rākau pāpua, nō te ngahere. He ririki, he porotaka he nihoniho ngā rau, he tauhokohoko te tipu.
Ko te ingoa pūtaiao ko ''Nothofagus menziesii''. He ingoa anō hoki i te [[reo Māori]] mō te rākau nei, arā he ''Tāwai''. Ko te ingoa i te [[reo Pākehā]] he ''Silver Beech''.

==Tirohia hoki==
* [[Tāwhai pango]]
* [[Tāwhai raunui]]

==Tohutoro==
*Metcalf, Laurie, 2002. ''A Photographic Guide to Trees of New Zealand''. Tāmaki-makau-rau: New Holland.
*Salmon, J.T., 1986. ''The Native Trees of New Zealand''. Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara: Heinneman Reed.

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[[Category:Rākau whakakake o Aotearoa]]

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