New Zealand honeysuckle

An evergreen tree with a narrowly conical habit, up to 30m high in its native environment but usually only 8-10m in cultivation. Young shoots are covered with red-brown felt, and young leaves are narrow and yellow-green, with coarsely serrated edges. Mature leaves are dark green, stiff and oblong-shaped. Dense spikes of small reddish flowers, with rolled petals and long styles, are produced from late spring to early summer, followed by woody brown seed pods