What is The bottle brush?

Answer 1

In the late 18th century, the Bottlebrush was collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, while the east coast of Australia was being discovered. Within three years, the Bottlebrush was available for many English horticulturists. The Bottlebrush is thus called because the flowers are similar to the wiry bottle cleaning brush. The stamen of the Bottlebrush are bright and numerous, they are very obvious to the naked eye. The flower petals are small and surround the filaments of the plant. These flowers are arranged linearly along the flower shoot in a spike inflorescence. It is the shape of this inflorescence that gives the Bottlebrush its distinctive bottlebrush shape. Bottlebrush plants (part of the Myrtaceae family) are found in the more moderate regions of Australia, areas such as the east and south east of Australia. But some species are found on the west coast, along the east coast and towards the middle of Tasmania, and distributed in the Northern Territory, Victoria and South Australia. The Crimson Bottlebrush is most commonly found along the east coast of Queensland, all the way down into the southeast of Victoria.