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Metrosideros florida, Smith. "Usually a tall woody climber," writes Cheeseman in the New Zeal. Flora, "reaching the tops of lofty trees:" lvs. opposite, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, veiny, glabrous: fls. yellowish red or orange-red in few-fld. or many-fld. simple or branched cymes; petals orbicular; stamens scarlet, very numerous, to 1 in. long.—The typical form is not advertised, but only var. variegata, Hort.
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Metrosideros florida, Smith. "Usually a tall woody climber," writes Cheeseman in the New Zeal. Flora, "reaching the tops of lofty trees:" lvs. opposite, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, veiny, glabrous: fls. yellowish red or orange-red in few-fld. or many-fld. simple or branched cymes; petals orbicular; stamens scarlet, very numerous, to 1 in. long.—The typical form is not advertised, but only var. variegata, Hort.
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