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Melaleuca glauca

 
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Melaleuca glauca - Albany bottlebrush
Image: Stirton, Charles - NBGW
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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.

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