Saturday 3 October 2009

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.

3 comments:

  1. Sydney's science Sally spots some special Southwales species!

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  2. We have several bottlebrush plants in the backyard of our house in Ariizona. The hummingbirds love them.

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  3. Beautiful. My pet rainbow lorikeet loves them.
    Sydney - City and Suburbs

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