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In Singapore: Weeping Bottle-brush (Grown in Singapore)
Weeping bottlebrush, a multi-trunked large shrub or small tree to about 10 m with drooping branches and bright red bottlebrush flowers in spring and summer. It is a very adaptable garden plant grown mainly in full sun, and several compact and weeping cultivars are widely sold.
Melaleuca viminalis, also referred to as Callistemon viminalis in Australia and commonly known as weeping bottlebrush, creek bottlebrush or drooping bottlebrush, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia but naturalised in other states and introduced to some other countries. It is a multi-trunked, large shrub or tree with hard bark, often pendulous foliage and large numbers of bright red bottlebrush flowers in spring and summer. It is one of the most commonly cultivated of the bottlebrushes, and its cultivars are often grown in many countries.
A widely grown garden plant and street tree, usually known as Callistemon viminalis, the species is extremely adaptable in cultivation, flowering best in full sun but shade tolerant with reduced flowering, and growing in most soils. It is useful as a screening plant and is suitable for planting as a street tree. It needs regular watering but can survive drought as a mature plant although it is not frost hardy and will succumb to salt spray.
Many cultivars of this species have been developed as cultivars of Callistemon. They include:
This melaleuca occurs along the eastern part of Queensland from the Cape York Peninsula south to Moree and Grafton in New South Wales. The species has apparently been collected in Western Australia in 1991, but the Western Australian Herbarium considers the species "alien to Western Australia". It mostly grows in and along watercourses, mainly in sandstone or granite country.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melaleuca viminalis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
