Crimson bottlebrush
গাঢ় লাল বোতল ব্রাশ
Callistemon citrinus
Kew's current name: Melaleuca citrina (Curtis) Dum.Cours.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.3 m
- wide
- 1.4 m
Myrtaceae
Also called Bottlebrush Tree, Common Red Bottlebrush, Scarlet Bottlebrush, Lemon Bottlebrush
Formerly Callistemon cunninghamii, Callistemon flavescens, Callistemon lilacinus, Callistemon longifolius, and 9 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. & SE. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 99 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 3–5 ft; Wikipedia 1–3 m
- Spread
- 81 cm to 2.0 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 2–3 ft; Wikipedia 1–3 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: NC State Extension medium; Wikipedia low
- Flowers
- RedRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension red, yellow; Wikipedia pink, red, white
- Coldest it survives
- -9.4 °C (USDA zone 8b)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 美花紅千層
- Spanish
- Escobillón rojo australiano, Escobillón australiano, Cepillo de botella
- French
- Rince-bouteille
- Finnish
- tulilamppuharja
- Czech
- štětkovec citrónový
- German
- Karminroter Zylinderputzer
- Japanese
- キンポウジュ
- Swedish
- lampborste
- Hebrew
- קליסטמון תרוג
- Chinese (China)
- 美花红千层
- Afrikaans
- Lemoenperdestert
- Turkish
- Fırça Çalısı
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Callistemon citrinus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.