Metrosideros perforata(J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) A.Rich.

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WFO wfo-0000242515 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Metrosideros perforata, photographed by Kelvin Perrie
fig. a Kelvin Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 192763808
Metrosideros perforata, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. b Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183673999
Metrosideros perforata, photographed by Andy McKay
fig. c Andy McKay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179462039
Metrosideros perforata, photographed by Cara-Lisa Schloots
fig. d Cara-Lisa Schloots, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178555682
Metrosideros perforata, photographed by Shaun
fig. e Shaun, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185951271
Metrosideros perforata, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. f Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183674228
Metrosideros perforata, photographed by Saryu Mae 前 朝琉
fig. g Saryu Mae 前 朝琉, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178396144
Metrosideros perforata, photographed by Saryu Mae 前 朝琉
fig. h Saryu Mae 前 朝琉, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178406179

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 453 observations

Peak flowering in Jan, from 453 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Leptospermum perforatum J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
  • Melaleuca perforata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) G.Forst.
  • Metrosideros buxifolia A.Cunn.
  • Metrosideros myrtifolia Dum.Cours.
  • Metrosideros scandens Sol. ex Gaertn.
  • Metrosideros tenuifolia Colenso
  • Metrosideros vesiculata Colenso

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.