Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Callistemon citrinus (Curtis) Stapf
Family Name	Myrtaceae
Common Name	Bottle Brush
Tamil Name	லைலா மஜ்னு
Life Form	Tree
Distribution	Australian continent
Botanical Distribution	Habit: large tree, tap root with crimson-yellow to redflowers. Stem - woody but upper portions herbaceous Leaves: Ramal and cauline, simple, alternate, entire, acute,gland dotted, leathery, unicostate reticulate venation, with inframarginal veins. Flowers: Inflorescence - Pendant spike, Bracteate, bractscaduceus, hermaphrodite, actinomorphic, pentamerous,epigynous, crimson-yellow to bright red. Calyx composed of 5 sepals, gamosepalous, imbricate, persistent. Corollacomposed of 5 petals, polypetalous, obovate, quincuncial,small and coloured. Androecium - polyandrous, connate anform a staminal sheath, dithecous, dorsifixed, introrse,filaments bright red, giving the same colour to the flower. Gynoecium is bi to tetracarpellary, generally tricarpellary, syncarpous, inferior, many carpels, many ovules in each locule, axile placentation, style long and curved, stigma flat.
Flowering and Fruiting	October – December
Key Compounds	αterpinol ,cineole, eugenol
Medicinal Use	-
At the Campus	Botanical garden