Narrow columnar juvenile form with slender interlacing branchlets, changing to an adult form with spreading crown. Flowers often single, white mildly fragrant, through summer and early autumn. Lowland forests south from Taranaki & Hawkes Bay.

Broadly conical, evergreen. Sweetly scented abundant white flowers in March. Good screening tree.

Selection with dark green foliage and dark red new growth. Flowers double frilly-edged red petals in late winter & spring. Hardy adaptable in a sunny position.

Narrowly conical when young, evergreen. White flowers in profusion from Dec. worked by bees. Tolerates exposed, wet and infertile sites. Useful nurse shrub for native revegetation projects.