Callistemon - Bottle brush

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Re: Callistemon - Bottle brush

Post by Joel »

Pup, one of the pics has flowers on it. They are yellow staminate balls. This rules out Leptospermum and Angophora.

No, i don't believe there are any leaves on even the first pics. I think those are infact phyllodes, which means that they are an Acacia species. Phyllodes are modified petioles (the part that joins the leaves to the stems) that have become flat, and in this case, the leaves don't exist at all. This is fairly common amongst Acacia species.

There is some information on this wikipedia page (2nd paragraph).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petiole_%28botany%29

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thats quite interesting

Ill take a better picture of the leaves to assist you guys out with the identification...


how do you guys know all these.. are you guys horticultirists or something? :D
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Re: Callistemon - Bottle brush

Post by Joel »

jwishbone wrote:thats quite interesting

Ill take a better picture of the leaves to assist you guys out with the identification...


how do you guys know all these.. are you guys horticultirists or something? :D
I'm studying to be one currently. Nearly finished my 1st year :)

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JayC wrote:
jwishbone wrote:thats quite interesting

Ill take a better picture of the leaves to assist you guys out with the identification...


how do you guys know all these.. are you guys horticultirists or something? :D
I'm studying to be one currently. Nearly finished my 1st year :)

JayC

Good on yah.. keep it up mate!
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