Callistemon Citrinus

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

CRIMSON 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. 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
Large shrub with dense foliage massed with crimson flowers and generally described as bright red, tipped with dark anthers with an average height of 3m.
Leaves are flat and stiff and growth is also stiff and dense.
The woody seed capsules remain closed on the branches for years and open when taken off and placed in a warm place.
Flowering can ocur twice a year if well watered with the main flowering season from early November. Autumn flowers can apprear from the end of March.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Can be used for a large hedge trimmed hard, or trained for a small tree by keeping one stem and staking in early years.
Excellent for the bees and small birds.

Image Source: Flower - JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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

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