Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 320
TWIGS OF THE BOTTLE-BRUSH. Showing arrangements of buds about the stems. Photograph by Arthur J. Burdick, Los Angeles, Cal. The botanical name for the plant is Callistemonlanceolatus. It is the red bottle-brush or water-gum of Queensland, Victoria, and New SouthWales. The plant grows to the height… … AUSTRALIAN BOTTLE-BRUSH—A PLANT CURIOSITY. The flowers consist of whorls of scarlet bristles which appear fromwoody buds which cluster about the stems of the shrub at various in-tervals. These clusters of woody buds are the bottles which givethe plant its name. Photograph by Arthur J. Burdick, Los…
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