Re: Metrosideros with golden new growth?

I remember seeing one growing on the roadside near the Dunbarton Bridge.  We
were leaving Palo Alto and heading back to Oakland.  I stopped at one of the
wayside parks and looked at the brine shrimp in the wetlands.   The tree
seemed very out of place.  I know that they have a tremendous ability to
disperse in Hawaii and are one of the first colonizers in lava flows.

MTF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doobieous" <doobieous@yahoo.com>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 8:45 AM
Subject: Metrosideros with golden new growth?


> There is a plant that has what appear to be the right
> flowers of Metrosideros growing near an offramp onto
> the highway here. It gets no water except from rain,
> and it's growing among ice plant.
>
> What's different is while the older leaves are the
> deep greenish gray of a usual metrosideros, it seems
> to have golden green new growth. It also seems to be
> flowering on one side of the plant. I'd like to get a
> photo soon, but i was wondering if this is actually
> metrosideros or another myrtaceous plant with similar
> flowers?
>
> Barry Garcia
> USDA zone 9
> Sunset zone 17
> Sandy soil
>
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