Weeping bottlebrush
Melaleuca viminalis (Sol. ex Gaertn.) Byrnes
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 7.6 m
- wide
- 6.1 m
Myrtaceae
Also called Dwarf Bottlebrush, Little John
Formerly Callistemon viminalis, Metrosideros viminalis
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
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Queensland to New South WalesKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 6.1 m to 9.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- RedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Limpiabotellas australiana, Calistemo
- Chinese
- 串錢柳
- Portuguese
- Escova-de-garrafa
- Czech
- nitkovec vrbový
- Japanese
- シダレハナマキ, シダレブラシノキ
- Chinese (China)
- 串钱柳, 垂枝红千层
- Hebrew
- קליסטמון הנצרים, מללויקת הנצרים
- Afrikaans
- Treurperdestert
- Russian
- Каллистемон прутовидный
- French
- Rince-bouteille pleureur
- Finnish
- norjalamppuharja
- Slovak
- melaleuka prútnatá
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 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: Melaleuca viminalis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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