Callistemon Salignus

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

WILLOW 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 hardy large shrub woth dense foliage reaching 5-6 m.
Attractive white papery bark.
The leaves are narrow-elliptical, soft texture, pale green with numerous oil dots. Juvenile foliage is bright pink.
The brushes are creamy-white to yellow, 5 cm long by 3 cm wide and appear in spring. Brushes are usually abundant and conspicuous. Sometimes there are sporadic blooms in autumn.

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Image Source: Flower - Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Image Source: Plant - John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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