Metrosideros carminea 'Carousel' is a dwarf ground covering shrub form of the climbing crimson rata Metrosideros carminea.
It forms a low growing spreading shrub with small shiny, striking lime and gold variegated leaves, on long lax branchlets. It produces small carmine-red flowers in spring.
'Carousel’ arose as a variegated sport of ‘Ferris Wheel’. It was selected by Jim Rumble of Duncan & Davis Nurseries of New Plymouth in 1987. Being vegetatively propagated from the adult form of the species it is largely a non-climbing cultivar but if planted against a wall it might revert to its climbing form and attach to the wall.