Check it out!
This grows on the doorstep of Second Chef’s parents’ place.
This, is a yellow pohutukawa southern rata. I’ve never heard of one of these, let alone seen one.
28 December, 2008
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28 December, 2008
Check it out!
This grows on the doorstep of Second Chef’s parents’ place.
This, is a yellow pohutukawa southern rata. I’ve never heard of one of these, let alone seen one.
28 December, 2008 at 2:09 pm
It might be an albino.
28 December, 2008 at 4:04 pm
“An occasional yellow-flowered specimen can be found in Otira and Westland” J. T Salmon (1991) Native New Zealand flowering plants.
I’ve never seen one either.
The pohutukawa in our back yard has red flowers but variegated leaves (mostly yellow)
28 December, 2008 at 5:37 pm
yeah, the wikipedia pages says that it is most probably a southern rata, which occasionally bloom yellow or white!
nice. probably the *only* time i’ve ever distinguished a rata from a pohutukawa!
28 December, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I’ve always thought the southern rata was a much darker red – but hey I’ve never seen them side-by-side
28 December, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I’ve not seen one either, but understood they were about. Great shot but.
The Rata’s an epiphyte yeah?
29 December, 2008 at 7:39 am
@art @paul, according to the wikipedia article the southern rata is a tree-proper and not always an epiphyte, and is *rarely* yellow.
guess we have a treasure on our hands!
29 December, 2008 at 8:25 am
You should propogate some cuttings!
30 December, 2008 at 8:25 am
I thought that rata have an orangey-red flower, and pohutukawa a crimsony-red flower. (Aside from the rare yellow rata, that is.)
30 December, 2008 at 11:51 am
The Southern rata and northern rata are a slightly different colour I think (normally red). Also the Northern rata is an epiphyte while the southern rata grows from seed.