This vine has a climbing scrambling habit and forms a dense bush or climbs with slender supporting stems that have aerial roots. It has dark green oval leaves and the crimson cup-shaped flowers appear in a fluffy-like cluster during early summer.

Hardiness zones 9 to 11 

Metrosideros carminea his naturally found in New Zealand and is listed as an endangered plant that is not commonly found in its native environment. 

It grows in well drained moist sandy to light clay loams in a protected sunny to semi-shaded position and is frost tolerant and drought tender.

Akakura is a hardy vine to shrub is that is grown over structures for screen planting or used as a low shrub in medium size gardens or as a container plant for courtyards. It is also suitable for roof gardens and grows on the coast and in the lower mountains. It has a fast growth rate establishing in 2 to 3 years. ID 1146

Metrosideros (may-trō-SID-er-os) carminea (kar-MIN-e-ah) 

Myrtaceae (mir-TAY-see-ee)
Myrtle, Eucalyptus, Clove and Guava Family