Melaleuca pachyphylla, commonly known as wallum bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to near-coastal regions of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. (Some Australian state herbaria use the name Callistemon pachyphyllus, which is still widely used in the literature.) It is a medium-sized shrub with a straggling habit and red, or sometimes greenish, bottlebrush flowers in summer.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Wallum Bottlebrush being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Melaleuca citrina
- Melaleuca montana
- Melaleuca rugulosa
- Melaleuca phoenicea
- Melaleuca glauca
- Melaleuca linearis
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Myrtales
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Genus
- Melaleuca
- Species
- Melaleuca pachyphylla
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