Melaleuca citrina (Curtis) Dum. Cours.
Family: Myrtaceae
Common names (English):
Common names (English):
Australian bottle brush, Bottle brush
Local name (Kannada):
Habit: Tree
Distribution:
Native in East Australia
Use: Ornamental
Description:
Trees, to 10 m high; branches drooping. Leaves simple, alternate, crowded towards the tip of branchlets, elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate. Flowers 2-2.5 cm long, red, in terminal spikes. Petals 5, greenish. Stamens many, connate at base, up to 2 cm long; filaments red.