Accession Data
Metrosideros excelsa
Common Name: Pohutukawa, New Zealand Christmas Tree
Family: Myrtaceae
Country of Origin: New Zealand North Island
Description: Although common in cultivation and even considered an invasive alien in parts of South Africa, the native populations of Pōhutukawa are in serious decline, primarily due to an alien species, the Australian brushtail possum.
Accession Data
USDA Zone: 10-11
Accession #: 200500008
Accession Date: 2005-01-28 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 2312
Quantity: 1
Source: Chad Husby - FIU
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
SubFamily: Myrtoideae
Tribe: Metrosidereae
References
- UC Botany Photo of the Day - visited 1 NOV 2006
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, September 12, 2017.
- WCSP (2017). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Tuesday, September 12, 2017.
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