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[vivian]

                                                 I have a bottle brace tree about 2foot high in the garden
                                                    always come with plenty of red in but looked
                                                   last week and had a yellow one it' I don't know if
                                                   if this is normally never happened before but I am happy
                                                         about it.

[kevin-beverly]

HI Vivian

Unexplained i have done a serch nothing callistemon Bottle-brush



kev

[vivian]

HI Vivian

Unexplained i have done a serch nothing callistemon Bottle-brush



kev

Really weird I wonder why I suddenly got a yellow one, I hope it doesn't mean somethings wrong and it's going to die.

[turkeyfoot]

Hi

I am not a gardener but is this what you mean

https://www.gardeningexpress.co.uk/callistemon-sieberi-widdicomb-yellow-bottlebrush

https://www.anbg.gov.au/callistemon/
The flower spikes of bottlebrushes form in spring and summer and are made up of a number of individual flowers. The pollen of the flower forms on the tip of a long coloured stalk called a filament. It is these filaments which give the flower spike its colour and distinctive 'bottlebrush' shape. The filaments are usually yellow or red, sometimes the pollen also adds a bright yellow flush to the flower spikes

Geoff

[vivian]

Hi

I am not a gardener but is this what you mean

https://www.gardeningexpress.co.uk/callistemon-sieberi-widdicomb-yellow-bottlebrush

https://www.anbg.gov.au/callistemon/
The flower spikes of bottlebrushes form in spring and summer and are made up of a number of individual flowers. The pollen of the flower forms on the tip of a long coloured stalk called a filament. It is these filaments which give the flower spike its colour and distinctive 'bottlebrush' shape. The filaments are usually yellow or red, sometimes the pollen also adds a bright yellow flush to the flower spikes

Geoff

Certainly looks like it but it's been RED all the time we had it so don't understand it suddenly having a yellow one on it, especially with it being a cutting from a red one, which as you say, the filaments were red. Never mind Ive always been one of a kind. lol.

[turkeyfoot]

Hi
I think the comment that the pollen can add a yellow flush maybe the answer
Geoff

[vivian]

                                             Come and JOIN me for a snack

[kevin-beverly]

Hi NO PIC

K FOR KIND PEOPLE OF ARILLAS WHO GIVE US A FANTASTIC HOLIDAY EACH YEAR I JUST LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU

KEV

[vivian]

Hi NO PIC

K FOR KIND PEOPLE OF ARILLAS WHO GIVE US A FANTASTIC HOLIDAY EACH YEAR I JUST LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU

KEV

I second that.

[kevin-beverly]

HI

L FOR LOVELY SUNSET  Taken from the Tria


kev sep 2022

[kevin-beverly]

Hi Vivian

I have posted your question about the Callistemon.  On a gardening forum from all over the world
So we see what happens

Kev

[vivian]

Hi Vivian

I have posted your question about the Callistemon.  On a gardening forum from all over the world
So we see what happens

Kev

Thanks Kev, will be very interested to find out if its just a quirk of nature .

[vivian]

                                                  This was a MAGICAL field.
                                         A different type of nature everyday.  Shame it's gone now
                                             
                                       
                                                   

[kevin-beverly]

HI Vivian

   
ZilyZily Castro Valley, CA  7h ago
Nov 17, 2022

I find it hard to believe. Have you seen the color change yourself?

I very closely followed several Australian native plant forums on Facebook for years as I was obsessed with Australian natives and learning all about them. I did see so many posts about Callistemons as well as Melaleucas and their photos. No one ever said this happened to any of their Callistemon though many posted red ones and yellow ones and many other colors. There are a ton of cultivars.

The only 1 I saw change colors happened in 1 season. It is a gorgeous one too, Callistemon 'Pink Champagne'.
https://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/422084/
This cultivar opens in the cool spring totally white but as it gets hotter it changes to light pink to darker pink when really warm then fades back to white in the cooler fall.

There are some that are light in color that change with age to a darker color like Callistemon 'Cane's Hybrid'.
https://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/330869/

If you figure it out, I'd be most interested.



kev

[kevin-beverly]

HI

N FOR NIGHT OWL  Before the extension

kev sep 2013