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Metrosideros carminea

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Graeme Hill
24/09/2019 3:51:06 p.m.
I planted a M carminea (ex Oratia Native Nursery) in the "garden" and was pleased when it started its climbing thing over the rocks. The other half however looks completely different from the shrub forms of M carminea I can spot on line and in books. Leaves (seem) too big, too long. One photo on NZPCN is encouraging but not a clincher. Is the upright form really carminea or a stowaway... excelsa?
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Graeme Hill
24/09/2019 3:53:33 p.m.
Further photos
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Graeme Hill
24/09/2019 3:54:36 p.m.
One more, underside
Graeme Hill
7/10/2019 5:14:52 p.m.
Nobody? Have I asked a dumb question?
Astrid van Meeuwen-Dijkgraaf
8/10/2019 8:11:41 a.m.
Metrosideros plants can exhibit several different growth forms. If it all comes off the same plant then it probably is just one species.
Philip Smith
14/10/2019 6:27:49 p.m.
Hi Graeme,
You had it right. The excelsa is a stowaway. It happens often. I was looking at some massive cut timber slabs used as steps the other day, on which the cracks were all lined with tiny, red-tinged seedlings of pohutukawa. They appear in all kinds of unlikely places if allowed to, and there would have been plenty of pohutukawa seeds floating around Oratia when the plant was propagated.
Graeme Hill
16/10/2019 2:17:22 p.m.
Okidoke. Thanks

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