Pohutukawa Bonsai Tree

Metrosideros excelsa with common names pohutukawa māori.

Pohutukawa bonsai tree. In the united states the tree usually blooms from late spring to midsummer where it may provide a flowery form of fireworks for memorial day or the fourth of july. Minigardens bonsai is new zealand s premier online bonsai shop. Highest quality bonsai trees both native new zealand classic japanese species. Bonsai make great gifts and are easy to care for with very little maintenance.

This would be a common occurance as the trees cling to the cliffs of some of our most exposed coast line. An ornamental tree with showy bright red flowers the pohutukawa tree metrosideros excelsa also known as the new zealand christmas tree has been introduced to warmer areas of the united states. Pohutukawa is maori terminology for drenched with spray. Metrosideros is derived from metra middle and sideros iron refering to the hardness of the heart wood.

They kept it because the nursery noticed a lot of bonsai people coming in recently. Bonsai is a japanese art form of growing miniature trees in shallow pots. Today s perfect greengift japanese white pine bonsai regular price 99. We ship the finest bonsai trees accessories nz wide.

This looks like two smaller trees simulating a clump style bonsai. I have recently had the opportunity to photograph a few very old pohutukawa trees in mt maunganui in new zealand. Bonsai means tree in a pot not a thousand year old tree but one that someone has taken time and an artists eye to style into a pleasing form one that gives its beholder a sense of age or location a connection between heaven and earth a piece of themselves. Metrosidorus excelsa also known as the new zealand christmas tree and in maori pohutukawa is an interesting tree to style as bonsai.

Orders are processed within 24 hours once payment is received. Commonly known as the new zealand christmas tree pohutukawa metrosideros excelsa brandishes appropriately red bottlebrush flowers during november and december in its native land. Time may change during public holidays. You are never too old to start bonsai.

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.