Melaleuca flammea — a medium houseplant
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Melaleuca flammea

Melaleuca Flammea

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Melaleuca flammea, commonly known as tapering-leaved bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. It is a shrub with broad, lance-shaped leaves which have wavy edges and taper gradually to a fine point. In spring it has typical bottlebrush flowers whose fiery colour gives the species its name.

CHARACTERISTICS

Botanical profile.

Genus
Melaleuca
Family
Myrtaceae
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Other names.

en Tapering-leaved bottlebrush
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