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Callistemon citrinus (Curt.) Skeels

ബോട്ടിൽ ബ്രഷ്

Family : MYRTACEAE

Synonym : Callistemon lanceolatus (Smith) Sweet

Common Names : Australian bottle brush, Bottle brush

Flowering Period : Throughout the year

Distribution : Native in East Australia; widely cultivated

Habitat : Cultivated as ornamental plant

Uses : Ornamental, hedge plant, firewood

Key Characters :

Callistemon citrinus are trees, bark dark brown, vertically striated. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate, crowded towards the tip of branchlets, margin entire. Flowers bisexual, red, in spikes; calyx adnate to ovary; petals 5, greenish, concave; stamens many, connate at base, up to 2 cm long; filaments red; anthers very small, versatile; ovary inferior, 3-celled, ovules many, placentation axile; style terminal, red, upto 2 cm long; stigma simple. Fruiting calyx not much enlarged the truncate orifice usually open.