The red bottle brush flower

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Frances Bat

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• Jun 30, 2018

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We have been wondering about this intriguing flowering shrub for a couple of days. Does anyone know the name in English or Spanish?

 

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• Jun 30, 2018

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Callistemon is the botanical name - my bet is that would sound ok in Spanish also? In Oz more commonly known as 'bottle brush'.

 

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• Jun 30, 2018

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Yeah, Callistemon splendens is the usual red one seen about, but there are yellow varieties too. They originate in Australia, but are found all over where it is not too wet/cold for them. We can grow quite a few in the South West of the UK.... They are very tough and can survive drought well.

 

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Great! Thank you for the swift replies.

 

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• Jul 1, 2018

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hecate105 said:

splendens is the usual red one seen about, but there are yellow varieties too

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And pink ones too!

 

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• Jul 1, 2018

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They grow over California too

 

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Frances Bat said:

We have been wondering about this intriguing flowering shrub for a couple of days. Does anyone know the name in English or Spanish? View attachment 44177

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It’s an Australian callistemon called a bottlebrush

 

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• Jul 1, 2018

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I think all callistemons are Australian. Like eucalypts. We have some weird flora, the result of being an island continent. Although obviously lots of it now grows in many places. Sometimes invasively - sorry Galicia, about those eucalypts.

 

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• Jul 1, 2018

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Try pronouncing Callistemon with a strong Catalan accent

If you want to grow a specimen for yourself the ' king's park ' variety is very good and less likely to turn woody and straggley.

 

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• Jul 2, 2018

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Found this one in Lavacolla - a well grown specimen....

 

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• Jul 2, 2018

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Thet respond well to a hard pruning after flowering otherwise thay get straggely.

 

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• Jul 3, 2018

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LesR said:

Found this one in Lavacolla - a well grown specimen....

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Just been paddling in the stream at Lavacolla. We missed the plant though.