SoonLeeNZI don't think it's a Metrosideros excelsa (Pōhutukawa) which flowers closer to Christmas but some other earlier flowering Metrosideros species. #somethingBeautiful #flower #metrosideros
charring auhimage displays the distinctive flowers of the ʻŌhiʻa lehua (#Metrosideros polymorpha), a species of flowering evergreen tree endemic to the six largest islands of Hawaiʻi.
Jan Helebrant#Metrosideros robusta tree; #TerraNostra Park (Portuguese: Parque Terra Nostra)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/96541566@N06/54671411987/
#Portugal #Azores #SaoMiguel #travel #nature #vegetation #Furnas #Myrtaceae #kiwi #NewZealand
https://www.flickr.com/photos/96541566@N06/54671411987/
#Portugal #Azores #SaoMiguel #travel #nature #vegetation #Furnas #Myrtaceae #kiwi #NewZealand
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Future SprogIn the TV show Man On The Inside the apartments they use for the exterior shot are at the corner of California St and Jones St in San Francisco which has two pōhutukawa (#Metrosideros excelsa) growing outside.
Local trees from Aotearoa NZ growing in a similar climate on the other side of the equator.
Mr Sprog
Does it count if it is in a pot? #pohutukawa #flower #NewZealandChristmasTree #somethingBeautiful #metrosideros
Early pohutukawa underway. #pohutukawa #flower #NewZealandChristmasTree #somethingBeautiful #metrosideros
Jon SullivanI've been enjoying the big flowering year of the pohutukawa trees in the gardens of Ōtautahi-Christchurch. They're on the wane now, and all the fallen stamens are making the footpaths look magenta.
I also just read that the stamens have been used to make a tasty cordial:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018821848/how-to-make-p-hutukawa-stamen-cordial
