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Pōhutukawa flowers

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Pōhutukawa flowers

Like many other members of the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), pōhutukawa’s flowers are brush blossoms. They typically consist of a mass of bright red stamens around a shallow bowl of nectar. Yellow flowers occasionally develop on some trees.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Tall broadleaf trees – Pōhutukawa, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13717/pohutukawa-flowers (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.