Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Callistemon subulatus

Flower spike, nuts, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Dwarf bottlebrush

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Along streams. Mainly coast, ranges, and tablelands. Naturlised in the ACT.

Notes

Shrub to 1.5 m tall. Bark hard, dark, fissured. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, mostly 2-4 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, linear and gradually tapering to a fine point or cylindrical, midrib prominent, tips with a short mucro. Flower spikes 40-80 mm long, 40–45 mm in diameter, red, sometimes purplish or pinkish. Individual flowers with 5 petals. Stamen filaments 15–20 mm long. Flowers mainly Summer,and sporadically throughout the year.

Melaleuca subulata in the ACT.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Callistemon~subulatus (accessed 18 April 2021)