Callistemon Pityoides

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

ALPINE 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
A shrub to 3 metres high and 2 metres wide.
Leaves are narrow and sharply pointed, to abut 3 cm in length and less than 0.3 cm wide. The under-surface usually has scattered oil glands and silky hairs. Younger leaves are entirely covered on both sides with dense silky hairs.
Creamy-yellow flowers are produced on a dense terminal spike about 4 cm long, out of which grows a leafy shoot as flowering comes to an end.
Capsules are to 5 mm diameter, arranged in the same spike-like structure along branches.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Suitable for alpine, subalpine and tablelands.
Will grow well in areas with less moisture than its natural habitat and is an excellent species for cold climates.
Plant in full sun for best results.
Tolerant of most soils, including periodically wet ground and is front tolerant.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Regenerates after fire from epicormic and basal shoots as well as from the seedbank.

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

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

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