Callistemon flavovirens

In your garden it will tolerate both dry and wet situations, is reasonably drought resistant and frost tolerant, and will attract honey-eating birds.

Common name	green bottlebrush
Scientific name	Callistemon flavovirens
Family	Myrtaceae
Etymology	Genus: From Greek, callos, beauty; and stemon, a stamen. Species: From Latin, flavus, yellow; and virens, green. Referring to the yellow-green flowers.
Distribution	A rare species, restricted to the granite belt of the Darling Downs area of Queensland and Northern Tablelands of New South Wales.
Native habitat	Usually in rocky situations along creek banks or in crevices.
Description	It develops into a spreading shrub with silvery new foliage and unusual yellow-green flowers.
Flowering/fruiting	Flowers in late spring and early summer. Flowers also appear sporadically throughout the year.
Location in garden	In Bed 4a, the rare and threatened garden in the Connections Garden, and in Bed 108 in the Big Idea Garden.
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