Our native kowhai trees have showers of golden flowers.
Gifts of gold.
Kowhai Flowers (Sophora sp.)
— photos taken at Dunedin Botanic Gardens 07 Sept 2019. New Zealand.
This kowhai tree is at one end of the rock garden. Taken by Nigel
The following photos are of a particular tree, located in a native plant garden within the botanic gardens. Taken by Liz
Sophora microphylla occurs in the North and South Islands, Chatham Islands, Chile and the Pacific.
Nigel took a photo of me and the tree…
Text by Liz, photos by Liz and Nigel; Exploring Colour (2019)
Exploring Colour 
Let’s hear it for your natives! I eagerly sought them out during my two visits.
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The yellows from your “common” sunflowers and our kowhais are all so lovely!
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Oh, they do look like gold! With little brass calyxes – tho’ not sure if that’s the right term! Very different spring blossom to what we get here – lovely!
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They are a lovely gold colour although different species and cultivars vary in the goldness. Some are more like a bright lemony-yellow. I think the gold colour intensifies until they drop off the tree and then a carpet of gold forms on the ground – and that looks beautiful too!
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I like the sound of that! 🙂 Reminds me of a square in Edinburgh with a number of cherry trees – when their pink blossom fell, it was like a covering of pink snow on the ground!
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I’ve seen cherry blossom carpeting the ground like that.. it’s magical! One of the great things about living down south here.
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What a bright and beautful blossom this tree has, Liz!
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Like with other blossom trees it drops the spent flowers all over the ground thereby creating a golden carpet … doubly beautiful!
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We love it too!
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Splendid. One of our granddaughter’s second name is Kowhai, so it’s a special tree in our family.
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That’s a beautiful name!
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