Capture: Peak Pohutukawa
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JacksonP, in reply to
Glorious.
It’s a pretty reliable spot for sunset goodness.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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two's company
tree's a crowd
or is that a tyred cliche?;- )
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The pohutukawa flowering all over Wellington has shown how big and magnificent some of these trees are.
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Ross Mason, in reply to
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two’s company
tree’s a crowd
or is that a tyred cliche?Treading lightly...Looks a bit bit flat. Overhanging branches like that need to be chopped off so that this ropey thing with a circular rubber device on cannot be used to accelerate an attached humanoid to dangerous speeds just in case: 1. They fall off 2. the branch breaks. This is a serious H&S issue and I will be taking it up with Adolf Council.
This idea that people are free to "invent" dangerous fun for their children should be outlawed.
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Our very first bloom from a tree that's been in a couple of years. Nice day here in Napier.
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Late to the party without a photo, but perhaps a technical observation. I was wandering around the other day having finally found the clip-on sunglass things for my glasses and it seemed to me the polarising really brought out the contrast.
Bearing in mind I do have idiosyncratic eyes - some really minimal red/green issue that only shows up doing colour vision tests or noticing pohutukawa or rata blossoming on a forest hillside. When I look at the blossom I also tend to feel like my eyes are responding to something brighter than I'm actually seeing but that may be normal.
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Sacha, in reply to
I also tend to feel like my eyes are responding to something brighter than I'm actually seeing but that may be normal.
I think that's the effect for us others too - ultra-vivid beyond reason.
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Silk tree.... no relation?
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
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Ah, Fab-aceae. Like, I bean thinking....
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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I bean thinking…
Legguminosae ?
pod diet tree…
Not just any old ‘broad bean’ then…
… but a scarlet runner!</fixed nitrogen>
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I believe the red Flax goes well with the Pohutukawa - and under-reported …
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Foreshore at the Maketu estuary.
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This thread makes me very happy!
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Late to the party without a photo, but perhaps a technical observation. I was wandering around the other day having finally found the clip-on sunglass things for my glasses and it seemed to me the polarising really brought out the contrast.
I reckon. The key is sunglasses with brown lenses. They tend to bring up reds -- and the pohutukawa look truly striking through them.
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Sacha, in reply to
is that near the surf club?
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There's a still point at the top
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Richard Stewart, in reply to
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Further up the estuary, near the pie factory. Damn nice chili beef and cheese pie too.
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Sacha, in reply to
ah, 100m from my old home. their smoked fish one rocks too.
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Rainy day in December.
Mr Leggs said “Don’t look.”Saw this oystercatcher on a pohutukawa carpet. It seemed fitting this shorebird is half on the red carpet and half on the green.
Never been this close to one before. A chance to see the beauty of the blue black feathers.It can’t have been there that long, only a few stamens have fallen on the bird. And if we’d been five minutes later we wouldn’t have seen the rubbish collectors pick it up.
Oystercatcher dreaming of Cape Reinga?
(I can’t believe we have all these great pohutukawa pictures and none from Cape Reinga yet)
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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...and none from Cape Reinga yet
from Te Rerenga Wairua (1984)
animated peak pohutukawa at 10.40, good buddy
</over>plus kelp!
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
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animated peak pohutukawa
Dazzling! watched from start to that wonderfully clean finish.
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A request:
As some of you know we work on branching in plants (figuring out how it is regulated), we regularly give seminars and we like to have a couple of pictures of trees with different branching patterns to introduce the topic.
For years now we've been on the lookout for the perfect picture of a Pohutukawa, For us the perfect picture would have several characteristics:
One that shows the random sprawling nature of the branches (pretty much a must have, it is after all the point of the image for us)
One that is in full bloom (because it's pretty that way)
Preferably a single tree on its own
No powerlines
no cars
no people (although not absolutely critical if they are small and not identifiable)
no roads
pretty much no manmade things to distract from the tree.Preferably against a beautiful piece of NZ scenery (we give talks overseas and like to convince our colleagues to come and visit NZ)
Good resolution (it is likely to be on a big screen)So amongst all the photos that folks have taken here does anyone have such a perfect tree that they'd be willing to let us use in talks (with image credit of course)?
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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frozen photon traces…
…the perfect picture would have several characteristics:
What about a control one also, with a measuring / survey stick for scale and possibly a colour chart for leaf and flower matching (date as well, plus GPS, soil salinity, acidity, etc?)
PS: looks pretty fractal to me – for ‘random sprawling nature’ I read ‘adventitious sun seeking’…
PPS: please ignore all pushes to deregulate branch bi & trifurcation, thats one canopy ya don’t wanna open…
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First NZ band to record a song with ‘Pohutukawa’ in the title? A novelty in its day.
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