Metrosideros Excelsa Bonsai

Recommended styles windswept root over rock informal upright.

Metrosideros excelsa bonsai. They are however growing successfully in the south island. Flowers june august but indoors may flower later. Forum for discussion of evergreen bonsai buxus cotoneaster olive etc. Pōhutukawa new zealand christmas tree new zealand christmas bush and iron tree is a coastal evergreen tree in the myrtle family myrtaceae that produces a brilliant display of red or occasionally orange yellow or white flowers made up of a mass of stamens.

Choose a site that receives direct sunlight each day and is not crowded by other trees and vegetation. Interesting because i spent this morning root pruning my nz christmas bush although mine s a dwarf metrosideros tomentosa dalese. I got it a month ago for 2 from the abandoned orphans area of the local nursery. Metrosideros excelsa with common names pohutukawa māori.

Dig a hole 3 inches wider and deeper than the root ball of the pohutukawa tree. Bonsai in the media. Has elliptic glossy dark green leaves felted white beneath. How to grow pohutukawa.

New zealand christmas tree pohutukawa. Metrosideros exelsus metrosideros tomentosa. Unsubscribe from gecko bonsai. Bonsai metrosideros excelsa gecko bonsai.

While some metrosideros species are very hardy the most common forms are quite frost tender while young. It measures 66 feet high with a trunk circumference of 338 inches and a crown spread of 82 feet. Bears bright red flowers all packed in and looks very much like a bottle brush callistemon flower. Their natural habitat extends from north cape to poverty bay on the eastern side and urenui on the west.

Likes a moist well drained neutral to acid soil in full sun and a sheltered position. Plant the tree far away from buildings.