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Melaleuca
glauca
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Image: Stirton, Charles - NBGW
Common name:
Albany bottlebrush
Family:
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Synonym:
Callistemon
glaucus
,
Callistemon
speciosus
Distribution:
Australia (Western)
Life form:
Evergreen shrub/sub-shrub • Llwyn bytholwyrdd
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
Melaleuca (me-luh-LOO-kuh): Having a black trunk & white branches.
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
glauca (GLAW-kuh): Bloom has thin powder (like plums), glauca is translated to mean "Blue-green" or "Blue Grey." It show up in latin names of Japanese White Pines and Blue Atlas Cedar for example.
Description:
With grey or brownish bark, fissured, tall up to about 8 metres with globose crown and almost drooping branches. The leaves, on a short petiole, have an intense green colour, are alternate, simple, lanceolate with sharp apex or obtuse, rigid, 4-10 cm long and 0,5-1 cm broad, aromatic due to the presence of oleiferous glands. The inflorescences are thick terminal spikes, cylindrical, 5 to 15 cm long, with several flowers with 5 sepals and 5 green petals, about 0,6 cm long, and several free stamina, 2,5 cm long, of bright red colour with yellow anthers, which are the most conspicuous part of the flower. The fruits are woody, globose, capsules, of 5-7 mm of diameter, depressed at the apex, persistent for long, containing numerous tiny seeds.
Locations
1:
GGWA05-Great Glasshouse Western Australia/Tŷ Gwydr Mawr Gorllewin Awstralia 05
(GGWA05)
• Accession: 2000-3214 • Origin: Australia • Provenance: Wild/Wyllt
2:
GGWA05-Great Glasshouse Western Australia/Tŷ Gwydr Mawr Gorllewin Awstralia 05
(GGWA05)
• Accession: 2012-0164 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
3:
GGWA06-Great Glasshouse Western Australia/Tŷ Gwydr Mawr Gorllewin Awstralia 06
(GGWA06)
• Accession: 2000-3214 • Origin: Australia • Provenance: Wild/Wyllt
4:
GGWA06-Great Glasshouse Western Australia/Tŷ Gwydr Mawr Gorllewin Awstralia 06
(GGWA06)
• Accession: 2012-0164 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
5:
GGWA12-Great Glasshouse Western Australia/Tŷ Gwydr Mawr Gorllewin Awstralia 12
(GGWA12)
• Accession: 1999-1284 (2) • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
6:
GGWA14-Great Glasshouse Western Australia/Tŷ Gwydr Mawr Gorllewin Awstralia 14
(GGWA14)
• Accession: 1999-1284 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
7:
GGWA15-Great Glasshouse Western Australia/Tŷ Gwydr Mawr Gorllewin Awstralia 15
(GGWA15)
• Accession: 1999-1284 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
8:
GGWA20-Great Glasshouse Western Australia/Tŷ Gwydr Mawr Gorllewin Awstralia 20
(GGWA20)
• Accession: 2000-3214 • Origin: Australia • Provenance: Wild/Wyllt
9:
GGWA21-Great Glasshouse Western Australia/Tŷ Gwydr Mawr Gorllewin Awstralia 21
(GGWA21)
• Accession: 2000-3214 • Origin: Australia • Provenance: Wild/Wyllt
10:
GGWA22-Great Glasshouse Western Australia/Tŷ Gwydr Mawr Gorllewin Awstralia 22
(GGWA22)
• Accession: 2000-3214 • Origin: Australia • Provenance: Wild/Wyllt
11:
GGWA31-Great Glasshouse Western Australia/Tŷ Gwydr Mawr Gorllewin Awstralia 31
(GGWA31)
• Accession: 2012-0164 (2) • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
12:
GGWA32-Great Glasshouse Western Australia/Tŷ Gwydr Mawr Gorllewin Awstralia 32
(GGWA32)
• Accession: 2012-0164 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
Area
Individual