Callistemon salignus

The willow bottlebrush or the white bottlebrush is in the myrtle or Myrtaceae family and is indigenous to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree reaching up to 15 m in height.

It now has been renamed Melaleuca salicina.

• Leaves are evergreen, alternate, 4–14 cm long and 0.5–1.6 cm wide, more or less flat, narrow elliptic in shape and tapering towards both ends; a mid-vein and marginal veins and 9-29 distinct lateral veins are visible.
• Flowers are white or creamy-white, arranged in spikes at the end of or around the branches; spikes are 50–80 mm long and 20–35 mm in diameter, with 10–40 individual flowers; petals are 2.6–4 mm long. There are 48-65 stamens in each flower, sometimes arranged in 5 groups, with their "stalks" (the filaments) forming the "bottlebrush". Flowering occurs from September to November.
• Developing fruit is a woody capsule, 3.8–4.4 mm long and 4–5 mm in diameter, in cylindrical clusters along the stem.