DSC_1269 Pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa) cultivar 'Moon Maiden' with pale sulphur-lemon flowers, and light grey-green foliage. Descended from a pair of yellow flowered pohutukawa trees discovered in 1840 on Motiti Island, off Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty. The cultivar was first offered for sale in 1998 by Duncan & Davies Nursery. Petone *
DSC_1772 Pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa) a descendant of two yellow flowered pohutukawa trees discovered in 1840 on Motiti Island, off Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty. Seedlings were first offered for sale in a 1947 by Duncan & Davies Nursery. For many years the nursery only produced plants from seed, but all seedlings remained relatively true to type and produced yellow flowers. Portobello, Otago Harbour *
DSC_9877 Pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa) cultivar 'Vonnie Cave' with pale apricot-salmon flowers, and bright green foliage. Descended from yellow flowered pohutukawa trees discovered in 1840 on Motiti Island, off Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty. The cultivar first appeared in Whanganui and was named in honour of Yvonne Cave, by plantsman Graeme Platt. Whanganui *
