ON THIS PLANT
Melaleuca brachyandra, commonly known as prickly bottlebrush or scarlet bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia in Australia. (Some Australian state herbaria continue to use the name Callistemon brachyandrus.) It is a shrub or small tree with narrow leaves and showy red and green flowers making it an ideal ornamental plant in temperate areas.
CHARACTERISTICS
Botanical profile.
- Genus
- Callistemon
- Family
- Myrtaceae
ALSO KNOWN AS
Other names.
en Prickly bottlebrush en Lemon bottlebrush en Scarlet bottlebrush
