Kunzea serotina

Description

Small columnar tree of mountains and intermontane basins of the North and South Islands.Bark copiously flaking,and often massing at trunk base in piles like wood shavings.Branches obliquely fastigiate ascending,bearing masses of small dark green to bronze green leaves and clusters of small white flowers.Branchlets finely,copiously covered in short,erect hairs.Leaves to 6.3 mm long,coriaceous.Flowers borne in dense 'corymbiform' clusters,white with a red centre.Fruit a small dry capsule 1.2–3.0 × 1.2–3.4 mm.