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Revision as of 07:28, 19 January 2010


A Pohutukawa on the shore front at Akaroa, New Zealand


Plant Characteristics
Habit   tree

Height: 10 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10. to 20 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20.
Width: 5 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 5. to 30 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30.
Lifespan: perennial
Origin: Mid and northern North Island, New Zealand
Bloom: late spring, early summer, mid summer
Cultivation
Exposure: sun, part-sun
Water: moist
Features: evergreen, flowers, birds, wildlife, cut flowers
Flower features: red, yellow, pink
Scientific Names

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Read about Metrosideros excelsa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Metrosideros tomentosa, A. Rich. Christmas-tree of New Zeal., because of its season of bloom, intro. into S. Calif, many years ago and now offered by nurserymen: much- branched tree to 70 ft., the short trunk becoming 5 ft. in diam.: lvs. very variable, 1—4 in. long, lanceolate to broad-oblong, acute or obtuse, very thick, usually tomentose beneath: fls. large, dark crimson, in many-fld. terminal cymes, the pedicels and calyces tomentose; stamens numerous, to 1½in. long.— Cheeseman reports it as a "noble and picturesque tree," abundant in the N. Island of New Zeal.


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