DSC_7685 Small white climbing rata or akatorotoro (Metrosideros perforata) showing the white flowers characteristically crowded towards the tips of branchlets. Kaimai Ranges *
DSC_9303 Small white climbing rata or akatorotoro (Metrosideros perforata) showing the white flowers characteristically crowded towards the tips of branchlets. Kaimai Ranges *
DSC_4834 Small white climbing rata or akatorotoro (Metrosideros perforata) showing the distinctive reddish-brown bark of the mature woody, long-climbing vine which may grow to a height of over 20m, and 20 cm or more in diameter. Seen here climbing a rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) trunk. Ruapehu National Park *
