Metrosideros excelsa

Metrosideros excelsa

Metrosideros excelsa

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Kingdom: Plantae > Phylum: Tracheophyta > Subphylum: Angiospermae > Class: Magnoliopsida > Order: Myrtales > Family: Myrtaceae > Subfamily: Myrtoideae > Tribe: Metrosidereae > Genus: Metrosideros > Species: Metrosideros excelsa

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Observations - Kahurangi Point - Mōkihinui

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Read more about Up close and personal - Metrosideros fulgens
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Metrosideros fulgens is often known as Scarlet Rātā Vine. it is everywhere here late summer in to autumn.

It will climb to the top of tall trees, and sometimes you can see it flowering all the way up the sides of the tall Rimu on the Valley track. Really spectacular.

Read more about Under the microscope - Zotovs bastard grass
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If there's one thing that Kiwis love it's a good sarcastic name. This one is not really a grass, it's a sedge, but it looks like grass so the wide variety of these hook sedges in New Zealand are called "Bastard grasses".

Read more about Up close and personal - a Kahikatea mast
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Kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) is masting this year. A mast is a season of major flowering or seeding in a species.

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