ON THIS PLANT
Melaleuca phoenicea, commonly known as scarlet bottlebrush or lesser bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. (Some Australian state herbaria continue to use the name Callistemon phoeniceus.) The Noongar peoples know the plant as tubada. It is a shrub with thick, blue-green leaves and spikes of scarlet bottlebrush flowers in spring and summer.
CHARACTERISTICS
Botanical profile.
- Genus
- Callistemon
- Family
- Myrtaceae
ALSO KNOWN AS
Other names.
en Lesser bottlebrush en Fiery bottlebrush en Scarlet bottlebrush
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