Synonyms:
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Metrosideros viminalis Sol. ex Gaertn.
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Common names:
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Weeping bottle-brush (English)
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Description:
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Shrub or small tree with long drooping branches. Leaves crowded near the ends of branches, linear-lanceolate. Flowers in pendent spikes; petals small, inconspicuous and deciduous, the spike consisting mostly of masses of bright red stamens, resembling a bottle brush. Fruit a small woody capsule. |
Notes:
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A commonly cultivated ornamental in gardens and along roadsides, rarely naturalised |
Derivation of specific name:
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viminalis: with long slender stems suitable for wicker or basketwork |
Flowering time: | All year |
Worldwide distribution:
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Native to Australia |
Growth form(s):
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Tree, shrub over 2 m.
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Insects associated with this species:
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Spot characters:
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Display spot characters for this species |
Image last updated: |
Tuesday 10 January 2006 |
Literature:
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Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 264.
Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 64.
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