Pōhutukawa
Metrosideros excelsa Sol. ex Gaertn.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 25 m
- wide
- —
Myrtaceae
Also called New Zealand Christmas Tree, Variegata, Pohutukawa, New Zealand Bottlebrush
Formerly Metrosideros tomentosa, Nania tomentosa
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- New Zealand North I.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 25 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Māori
- Pōhutukawa, Hutukawa
- Portuguese
- Metrosídero
- Czech
- železnec ztepilý
- Chinese (China)
- 新西兰圣诞树
- Danish
- New Zealandsk Juletræ
- Afrikaans
- Nieu-Seelandse Perdestert
- Russian
- Метросидерос высокий
- French
- Arbre de Noël de Nouvelle-Zélande
- Italian
- Albero di Natale neozelandese
- Chinese
- 高聳貼心木, 高大铁心木
- Finnish
- maorihehkupuu
- Slovak
- železnec statný
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Metrosideros excelsa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.