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White rata
Common
name: White rata |
Botanical
name: Metrosideros colensoi |
Family: Myrtaceae |
Maximum height: Up
to 6 metres |
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Where found:
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- Coastal and lowland forests
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Description: |
- A climber with branches that characteristically arch out into
hanging curtains
- Branchlets almost circular, very hairy when young but becoming
hairless with age
- Pointed leaves 8-20mm x 5-20mm
- A few small white flowers, terminal on hanging branch tips,
flowering from November to January
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PHOTO: Barry Hartley

PHOTO: Barry Hartley

PHOTO: Barry Hartley
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