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Family: Myrtaceae	Genus: Callistemon	Species: Callistemon viminalis (Sol. ex Gaertn.) G.Don ( बोतलब्रश )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Melaleuca viminalis (Sol. ex Gaertn.) Byrnes , Melaleuca viminalis var. minor Byrnes , Metrosideros viminalis Sol. ex Gaertn.	Flower Color	Red - Pink
Common Name	Bottlebrush	Flower Type	Solitary
English / Trade Name	Weeping bottlebrush, Creek bottlebrush, Red Bottlebrush, Drooping Bottlebrush	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Bottlebrush	Fruiting Period	Oct-Dec
Altitude	800 m	Fruit Type	Capsule
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	The flowers are followed by persistent woody capsules
Habitat	It mostly grows in and along watercourses, mainly in sandstone or granite country.	Bark Type	Fissured
Distribution	Occurs along the eastern part of Queensland from the Cape York Peninsula south to Moree and Grafton in New South Wales.	Bark Details	Hard, fibrous, furrowed bark, a number of trunks and usually pendulous branches
Distribution in Haryana	Ambala, Bhiwani, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra, M. Garh, Mewat, Morni-Pinjore, Palwal, Panipat, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa, Sonepat, Yamuna Nagar	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
Description of Species	Tree up to 35 metres, bark hard, fibrous, furrowed with pendulous branches. Leaves arranged alternate, lanceolate. Flowers are in scarlet spikes 4-10cm long, producing persistent woody capsules. Fruits are 5-6 mm in diameter and the seed is held for a few seasons.	Leaf Details	The leaves of are lanceolate 3-6 mm wide by 40-70 mm long but northern forms have a more elliptical-shaped leaf.

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