❖ Common name- Bottle brush

❖ Scientific name- Callistemon lanceolatus

❖ Classification-

Kingdom- Plantae

Family- Myrtaceae

Order- Myrtales

❖ Mode of propagation-

Bottlebrushes grow into big shrubs or small trees. They are excellent garden plants and can range from several feet (1 to 1.5 m.) tall to over 10 feet (3 m.). Most tolerate frost and require little care once established. Propagating bottle brush is easy with callistemon bottle brush seeds. First, you have to look for and collect the bottlebrush fruit. Bottlebrush pollen forms on the tips of the long, flower spike filaments. Each blossom produces a fruit, small and woody, that holds hundreds of tiny callistemon bottle brush seeds. They grow in clusters along the flower stem and can remain there for years before the seeds are released.

❖ Uses-

The Bottle brush is a popular ornamental tree.They are woody aromatic trees and the different parts of this herb have been used in common remedies for treatment of diarrhoea, dysentery and rheumatism. It is also used as a water accent, anticough, antibronchtits and insecticide in folk medicine. The innumerable medicinal properties and therapeutic uses of C. citrinus as well as its phytochemical investigations prove its importance as a valuable medicinal plant.