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The bottlebrush tree from
Australia is common in Southern California. It gets its name from the
way the stamens and pistils of a flower cluster radiate from the
branch, like colorful bristles of a bottle brush.
A different view of the
flower spike shows how the flowers are arranged on the twig. Each
flower has one pistil and many stamens.
Here are flower buds of
new flower spike, and fruit from the previous spike.
The bottlebrush can
become a fairly large tree when permitted.
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