Callistemon Viminalis 'Captain Cook'

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Common Name:

DWARF WEEPING BOTTLEBRUSH

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. Erect or spreading shrub growing 1–3 m high

2. Branchlets smooth, often reddish

3. ‘Leaves’ grey-green, elliptical to obliquely rounded, 1–4 cm long, 3–11 mm wide

4. Golden yellow globular flowerheads on fine hairless stalks in loose racemes, often profuse; flowering July to November

5. Seed pods straight or curved, 5–9 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, pale brown at maturity, sometimes with a whitish bloom
An erect but compact shrub, growing to around a 1.5 m high and 1.5 m wide.
Large bright red bottlebrush flowers in abundance, in spring/summer and autumn.
Has smaller foliage and is tighter and smaller in habit than many other varieties, with a slightly cascading habit.

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

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