Callistemon viminalis 'Captain Cook' - my bottlebrush

Here's the bottlebrush I can see from my kitchen. It's in full bloom through October and November.

Genus: Callistemon
Family: Myrtaceae
Natural distribution: North-eastern New South Wales and eastern Queensland

Name:

Callistemon - from the Greek, kallistos, most beautiful and stema, a stamen;
viminalis - from the Latin, vimen, a long flexible shoot or osier.