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Alice Springs FloraAlice Springs Flora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Apple Bush Bougainvillea Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander

Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), also known as the Weeping Red Bottlebrush is a medium sized tree of up to 5 metres, that has been known to grow up to 10 metres high. A great looking bottlebrush that has a weeping habit and with the new growth having a reddish tinge.

Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), Alice Springs NT
Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), Alice Springs NT
Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), Alice Springs NT
Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), Alice Springs NT
Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), Alice Springs NT
Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), Alice Springs NT
Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), Alice Springs NT
Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), Alice Springs NT
Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), Alice Springs NT
Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), Alice Springs NT
Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), Alice Springs NT
Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), Alice Springs NT

  • Scientific classification
  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Phylum: Charophyta
  • Class: Equisetopsida
  • Subclass: Magnoliidae
  • Superorder: Rosanae
  • Order: Myrtales
  • Family: Myrtaceae
  • Genus: Callistemon
  • Species: Callistemon viminalis

Footnote & References

  1. Plant’s name doesn’t do its beauty justice, by Geoff Miers, 12 April 2021, Alice Springs News, https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/04/12/plants-name-doesnt-do-its-beauty-justice/

Alice Springs FloraAlice Springs Flora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Apple Bush Bougainvillea Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander

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