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Callistemon citrinus
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Callistemon citrinus (Curt.) Skeels, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bur.Pl.Ind., Bull. 282: 49. 1913; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 108. 1982; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 161. 1989; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 118. 2002; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 290. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 365. 2009.
Metrosideros citrina Curt., Bot. Mag. 8, t.260. 1794.
Metrosideros lanceolata Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 3: 272. 1797.
Callistemon lanceolatus (Smith) Sweet, Fl. Austral. sub. t. 29. 1828.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Australian bottle brush, Bottle brush
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Description:
Trees, to 10 m high, bark dark brown, vertically striated; blaze pink changing to reddish-brown; branches drooping; young shoots silky tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate, crowded towards the tip of branchlets; petiole 2-4 mm long, flattened, villous when young; lamina 3-7 x 0.4-0.9 cm, elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate, base acute or cuneate, apex acute, margin entire, ciliate, when young, glabrous when mature, coriaceous, glandular punctate; lateral nerves faint, more or less distinctly pinnate. Flowers bisexual 2-2.5 cm long, red, in spikes; calyx 4-5 mm long, adnate to ovary, pubescent; lobes 5, margin ciliate; petals 5, 4-6 x 4 mm, greenish, concave, obtuse, glandular, deciduous; stamens many, connate at base, up to 2 cm long; filaments red, exserted; anthers very small, versatile; ovary inferior, 3-celled, ovules many, placentation axile; style terminal, red, upto 2 cm long; stigma simple. Fruiting calyx not much enlarged, the truncate orifice usually open.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Cultivated as ornamental plant
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Distribution:
Native in East Australia; widely cultivated
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Red
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Parambikulam
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