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(Entry)
Bottlebrush
15 November 2024
Callistemon citrinus
94% certain
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Origin
- Australia
- Bloom season
- Spring and again in warm spells
- Colors
- red, crimson
- Habitat
- Parks, dry gardens, and streets in frost-light towns
- Symbolism
- Celebration, and a fire-coloured welcome
A tree whose flowers are spikes of scarlet stamens, like a bottle brush hung in the canopy for nectar-birds.
Care. Plant in full sun with very free-draining soil and almost no extra fertilizer.
A note. The 'brush' is almost all stamens; birds and bees work the nectar at the base of each filament.
Or perhaps
- Firebush — 5%
- Red ginger — 3%
Notes on the photograph
Copied from the marks left by the camera.
- Captured
- Nov 15, 2024, 7:28 PM
- Camera
- Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
- Lens
- iPhone 14 Pro Max back triple camera 2.22mm f/2.2
- Focal length
- 2.2mm
- Aperture
- f/2.2
- Shutter
- 1/261s
- ISO
- 40
- Dimensions
- 4032 × 3024
Where it was found
The place is taken from the photograph's own memory, if any.
4.7010° N, 74.0683° W
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