VILLOSA, NOT POHUTUKAWA
(To tho Editor.)
Sir,—lt did not appear to me wortl) the time of going to see the tree in the Parliament House grounds, but the supposition was that as the usual time for pohutukawa to flower was December, it was possibly another species of the rata genus, villosa or Florida, as they flower at this time of year. . * Your last correspondent says that it is not a rata but a pohutukawa. After reading this, I went to see the tree, and find that it is villosa, and flowering in its usual season of the year. For the sake of the printer, one hesitates to use botanical terms, but to put this matter straight I may say that the genus metrosideros has eleven species embracing all the ratas from the small, white flowering to the scarlet flowering tree Robies'ta, including also tomentosa (Maori, pohutukawa). To check wy position I requested the Government Botanist to see the tree, which he kindly did, and confirms my statement that the tree is villosa, not pohutukawa.—l am, etc., NATURE LOVER. 6th September.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 58, 6 September 1926, Page 11
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