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Pronunciation:
call-is-TEE-mon vim-in-AH-lis
mel-ah-LUKE-ah - Common Name: Weeping Bottlebrush
- Derivation: Callistemon: gr. calli - beautiful, gr. stemon - Stamen viminalis: vimineous: havingor resembling long flexible shoots like the willow. L. vimineus - bearing osiers (shoots, as above)
- Type: Shrub or small Tree
- Family: MYRTACEAE
- Size: to 10 metres tall
- Flowers: Cylindrical spikes. Red, spring and Most of the year.
- Fruit: Woody Capsule
- Vegetation Type: Wet Eucalypt, Riparian
- Species List: Hedges, NLTalks2010, Coolum High, Pomona School Oval, Cooroy Mill Site, BSDoonan,
Cultural Notes
Honey Production: medium amber, honey source minor, Pollen source medium.
Identification Notes
Flowers: no Petals, plentiful stamens. Filaments united into short ring at base
Bark dark, rough, furrowed.
Landscaping Notes
A number of horticultural forms widely cultivated as ornamentals.
Bird-attracting
Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery
Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery
Weeping foliage for hedge or screening.
Associated Fauna
Medium source of Pollen for bees.
