Pohutukawa... Metrosideros Excelsa... This tree is known as the New Zealand Christmas tree as it flowers this time of the year.. It grows mainly onthe coast of the North Island. .. Once the tree's start flowering we know that Christmas really is here..
These beautiful young tree's are in the Auckland Botanical Gardens..and they were busy with bee's and tui's ...
Gorgeous - I love the tree that's fully covered with flowers. I was out yesterday morning photographing pohutukawa too…Would have been a lovely warm summers day to visit the botanic gardens today.
A great Christmas collage - I love how you have captured its essence in detail as well as the fully blooming tree. -I'm still waiting for my pohutukawa trees to flower but the weather is not cooperating here at the top of the South Island - and its blowing and raining again today! We need a week of sunshine. Fav.
