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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1930, Page 8

A brilliant feature of Sydney’s Botanic Gardens just now is New Zealand’s Christmas bush, the pohutukawa, in all the glory of its flaming, scarlet flowers, writes the Post’s correspondent. For years Australian experts have been advocating strongly the planting of tins tree. The display in the Botanic Gardens is witness to*the wisdom of their recommendation. The pohutukawa, at first glance, is not unlike the more familiar giant bottle-brush, but a closer inspect tion reveals a tree of much greater strength and character. The Bopo is expressed by botanists that the tree will find Australian-wide favour. When the buds break, they thrown out a fringe of pin-like petals which, clustered together, produce a flower that makes an immediate appeal to the eye. Metrosideios tomentosa is the botanical name, under which the pohutukawa is now being catalogued and sold in Sydney.