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Callistemon Kings Park Special

Flower
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Price:
$154.00 (including GST)
Common Name:
RED BOTTLEBRUSH
Quantity of Trays:

PLEASE NOTE: Orders are by full tray only. Each tray contains 40 plants. When ordering, please choose how many trays you would like.


WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

  • 1. Spreading rounded shrub growing 1–4 m high and wide 
    2. Branchlets yellow or reddish, minutely hairy 
    3. ‘Leaves’ grey-green, 1.5–5 cm long, 3–7 mm wide, radiating around branchlets, variable in shape 
    4. Bright golden ball flowers in heavy clusters at branch ends; flower stalks stout, with minute golden hairs; flowering April to October 
    5. Seed pods straight or curved, 5–10 cm long, 4–9 mm wide, dark brown at maturity, may have a whitish bloom 
    A relatively compact, free-flowering bottlebrush with bright red flower heads. 
  • Can grow to 3-4 m high and 3-4 m wide. 
  • It has attractive furrowed bark.
  • Flowering usually in Spring and Autumn. 

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

  • Fast growing and very hardy for a range of soil types and positions. 
  • Tolerates heavy frost.
  • Dought resistant.
  • Prefers sunny to light shade. 

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

  • A good feature or screen plant, it can be pruned to shape or allowed to grow naturally into a small tree.  
  • If needed, it can be cut back very hard and will generally reshoot form the numerous dormant buds in the trunk. 
  • Excellent for attracting bees, nectar eating birds, butterflies, and other insects.
  • Can be used for hedging, screening and as a windbreak. 

 

 

Image Source: Flower - Fagg, M. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)

Image Source: Plant - Fagg, M. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)