Unknown plant - looking for a name and a family!
By bernieh
7 comments
This is a shrub that is around 4 metres tall and has an arching habit. It flowers all year round.
These are the buds.
This is what the buds look like when they begin to flower.
This is what it looks like when flowering.
This is a close-up of the flower. You can see the five petals and the long stamens.
Any ideas?
27 Feb, 2009
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Very colourful. No, I don't know either.
27 Feb, 2009
Nice shrub, but dont know what it is.
27 Feb, 2009
is it Calliandra [the powder puff tree] it looks as if the flower is too round to be the bottle brush, latin name, Callistemon. google them and see which is the best match. and if you find out let us know please.
when i re read your q and saw it was flowering all year round i then checked where you are. i feel pretty certain it is the the poderpuff now.
27 Feb, 2009
Nice photos as well.
28 Feb, 2009
Thanks for your suggestion Marguerite, I still haven't found out what this is. I've been surfing lots of google images but nothing has turned up yet. I agree with you, it doesn't look like a calliandra (have had lots of those before in other gardens and got a couple now) and it's definitely not callistemon, so the question remains unanswered.
15 Mar, 2009
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No idea. - but it's a nice shrub, especially since it flowers all year round.
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