Callistemon citrinus

The common red bottlebrush or the lemon bottlebrush is in the myrtle or Myrtaceae family and is indigenous to New South Wales and Victoria in Australia. It is a shrub and can reach up to 5 m in height.It is now commonly known as Melaleuca citrina.

It now has been renamed Melaleuca citrina.

• Leaves are evergreen, alternate, 2.6–10 cm long and 0.4–2.5 cm wide, hard, flat, narrow egg-shaped with the narrower end near the base and with a pointed but not sharp end. There are between 7 and 26 branching veins clearly visible on both sides of the leaves and a large number of distinct oil glands visible on both surfaces of the leaves.
• Flowers are red and arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The spikes are up to 4.5–7 cm in diameter and 6–10 cm long with up to 80 individual flowers. The petals are 3.9–5.8 mm long and fall off as the flower ages. There are 30 to 45 stamens in each flower, with their "stalks" (the filaments) red and "tips" (the anthers) purple forming the bottlebrush. Flowering occurs in most months of the year but mainly in November and December.
• Flowering is followed by fruit which are woody, cup-shaped capsules, 4.4–7 mm long and about 7 mm wide, in cylindrical clusters along the stem. The fruiting capsules remain unopened until the plant or the part bearing them dies.
• Bark is hard, fibrous or papery and growth is usually covered with soft, silky hairs.