Metrosideros is a genus of tree native to the islands of the Pacific Ocean, including the Bonin Islands, Polynesia, and Melanesia. There are approximately fifty species, in two subgenera, Mearnsia (24 species) and Metrosideros (26 species). The best-known species are the Pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa), Northern Rata (M. robustus), and Southern rata (M. umbellatus) of New Zealand and M. polymorpha, known in Hawaii as the Ohia lehua. New Caledonia has seven endemic species of Metrosideros, Hawaii five, and New Zealand four. Metrosideros seeds can disperse on the wind, which accounts for its wide distribution.
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Metrosideros are native to the Islands of the Pacific.
Known as Metrosideros ‘Fiji’ this plant was collected by Oz Blumhardt in Fiji on the island of Tavenui and in the centre of the big Island Viti Levu.
On the two habitats with no remains of an earlier vegetation (i.e., on the crater floor, 1 and the cinder cone, 2), native woody seed plants were the third life form to arrive and exotic woody and herbaceous plants were the last.
Metrosiderostrees survived under a pumice blanket slightly deeper than 2.5 m in habitat 5.
In habitat 3, all Metrosiderostrees were severely damaged by the glowing-hot spatter that became welded upon deposition.
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