Capture: Peak Pohutukawa
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
pohutakawa wall outside parliament
Garden Danger!
Reds in the beds!!Getcha best burghers at Pohutakaways
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
across the water from Marsden Point
...very refined!
Do these ones go deep purple?
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FOund another in the can from a recent trip to Ohope, at the Ohiwa Harbour end. This camping ground was planted with trees all reaching a reasonable size for shade. We got there the day it opened for the season, and there were more trees than humans.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Using the camera’s vivid setting.
Post-photographic saturation seems legit in this case. It's quite hard to capture the eyewitnessed intensity of a fresh blooming -- as if the phone camera won't accept that anything is that vivid.
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A few from Mangere Bridge – my favourite bus stop for a while. Sad to see on my work travels about Auckland how many trees have been shaped to accommodate power lines. This taken earlier in December
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And on my bike ride to work - taken on cheap phone so maybe not the best pics - but an absolutely beautiful ride there ...
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and home again in the dark..... these are pohutakawas...
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and more on the ride.... continues for next few photos
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still riding...
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..still riding....
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Then a wonderful walk up Mangere Mountain....
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cheers for the aurea!
had never seen one till the biggie in our yard flowered... now i see them everywhere in wellington.
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Thorndon, Wellington.
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Che Tibby, in reply to
i'm soooo glad you got that tree. it's consistently the best in wellington.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
..still riding….
Ride on!!
What a fab collection of pohutukawa (everyone). Keep em coming.
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Looking for a new angle.
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Without the sun, such a deep deep red.
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Hebe,
Banks Peninsula poot: this pohutukawa amazed me when I saw it by the side of the side of the road in the north-facing Le Bons Bay near the sea. I had not thought they flowered so well and became so large this far south. Apparently the Peninsula is getting toward the southern limit – does anyone knows of more southerly specimens?
The colours in this are true, so I guess is could be a southern rata, though I don't know how to tell the difference.
This was taken on holiday in January 2007, before my father died and the city fell down, and I always look at it with a little sadness and the memory of a simpler time. While we were staying in the bach, a piwakawaka flew inside, looping around my head, one hot evening. We knew.
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Patrick Xavier, in reply to
That whole line is right outside my house. (I like the southernmost one the best this year.) I wait in anticipation every year for the flocks of dive-bombing tuis, scaring the crap out of the resident starlings. WCC pruned all these trees between Xmas and NY. They seem to have done a good job,
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and another on the ride - I think the ride to work at this time of year may be the reason I go to work!
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Jean Hughes, in reply to
I love that dark red one - especially when mixed with new bright green leaf
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While I think of it, Belinda Ellis’ amazing ICONZ collection includes the above representation of a pohutukawa flower (icon 35).
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
I think the ride to work at this time of year may be the reason I go to work!
a bit like David Hood and his botanical garden walk to work, could lead to excessive dawdling....
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a few pre-xmas pohutukawas
that last one is the victoria park bee hotel with pohutukawa in background.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
snap!
anotherrepresentation of a pohutukawa flower
separated at birth?
or will it be
pistils at dawn!
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