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Bottle-wash Plant
At the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens in Kandy, Sri Lanka I was shown
two species of flowers called Bottle-wash plants -- one red and the other one yellow. They, indeed, looked like the old-time feeding bottle washers. I could not find their scientific/botanical names on the Internet. I will appreciate if some one will help me with this. Thanks. Khalid R. Siddiqui, MD. |
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Bottle-wash Plant
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Khalid Siddiqui wrote: At the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens in Kandy, Sri Lanka I was shown two species of flowers called Bottle-wash plants -- one red and the other one yellow. They, indeed, looked like the old-time feeding bottle washers. I could not find their scientific/botanical names on the Internet. I will appreciate if some one will help me with this. Thanks. Khalid R. Siddiqui, MD. I've seen a tropical plant called a bottle brush plant, but I don't know its botanical name. Perhaps searching under 'bottle brush plant' will help you find it. Let us know what happens. |
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Bottle-wash Plant
On Sep 25, 12:15*pm, (Beverly Erlebacher) wrote:
In article , Khalid Siddiqui wrote: At the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens in Kandy, Sri Lanka I was shown two species of flowers called Bottle-wash plants -- one red and the other one yellow. They, indeed, *looked like the old-time *feeding bottle washers. I could not find their scientific/botanical names on the Internet. I will appreciate if some one will help me with this. Thanks. Khalid R. Siddiqui, MD. I've seen a tropical plant called a bottle brush plant, but I don't know its botanical name. *Perhaps searching under 'bottle brush plant' will help you find it. *Let us know what happens. Yes, it did help. It belongs to the genus Callistemon. Thank you very much. Going over the video clip carefully it seems that the guide is indeed saying 'bottlebrush'. BTW do you know of any site that contains the names (and photographs if possible) of the orchids found at the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens. Thanks. Khalid |
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Bottle-wash Plant
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, Khalid Siddiqui wrote: On Sep 25, 12:15=A0pm, (Beverly Erlebacher) wrote: In article = ..com, Khalid Siddiqui wrote: At the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens in Kandy, Sri Lanka I was shown two species of flowers called Bottle-wash plants -- one red and the other one yellow. They, indeed, looked like the old-time feeding bottle washers. I could not find their scientific/botanical names on the Internet. I will appreciate if some one will help me with this. Thanks. Khalid R. Siddiqui, MD. I've seen a tropical plant called a bottle brush plant, but I don't know its botanical name. Perhaps searching under 'bottle brush plant' will help you find it. Let us know what happens. Yes, it did help. It belongs to the genus Callistemon. Thank you very much. Going over the video clip carefully it seems that the guide is indeed saying 'bottlebrush'. It seems the genus _Callistemon_ is now included in _Melaleuca_: http://www-public.jcu.edu. au/discovernature/plantscommon/JCUDEV_005987 Maybe that is why you were shown yellow as well as red flowers. I was a bit puzzled by the former because most (but not all) callistemons have red flowers, but greenish cream to cream yellow flowers are quite common in the melaleucas, and they also look like bottle brushes. Anyway, a Google search for :"bottlebrush melaleuca site:.au" came up with the above page at the James Cook University of North Queensland (campuses in Townsville and Cairns) where I found this information: quoting "The genus Callistemon has recently been combined with the genus Melaleuca. It is endemic to Australia, where many species can be observed growing along watercourses." /quoting BTW do you know of any site that contains the names (and photographs if possible) of the orchids found at the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens. Can't help you there. I haven't been in Ceylon since 1970. :-) Cheers, Phred. -- LID |
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Bottle-wash Plant
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"Phred" wrote in message ... In article , Khalid Siddiqui wrote: On Sep 25, 12:15=A0pm, (Beverly Erlebacher) wrote: In article = ..com, Khalid Siddiqui wrote: At the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens in Kandy, Sri Lanka I was shown two species of flowers called Bottle-wash plants -- one red and the other one yellow. They, indeed, looked like the old-time feeding bottle washers. I could not find their scientific/botanical names on the Internet. I will appreciate if some one will help me with this. Thanks. Khalid R. Siddiqui, MD. I've seen a tropical plant called a bottle brush plant, but I don't know its botanical name. Perhaps searching under 'bottle brush plant' will help you find it. Let us know what happens. Yes, it did help. It belongs to the genus Callistemon. Thank you very much. Going over the video clip carefully it seems that the guide is indeed saying 'bottlebrush'. It seems the genus _Callistemon_ is now included in _Melaleuca_: http://www-public.jcu.edu. au/discovernature/plantscommon/JCUDEV_005987 Maybe that is why you were shown yellow as well as red flowers. I was a bit puzzled by the former because most (but not all) callistemons have red flowers, but greenish cream to cream yellow flowers are quite common in the melaleucas, and they also look like bottle brushes. Anyway, a Google search for :"bottlebrush melaleuca site:.au" came up with the above page at the James Cook University of North Queensland (campuses in Townsville and Cairns) where I found this information: quoting "The genus Callistemon has recently been combined with the genus Melaleuca. It is endemic to Australia, where many species can be observed growing along watercourses." /quoting BTW do you know of any site that contains the names (and photographs if possible) of the orchids found at the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens. Can't help you there. I haven't been in Ceylon since 1970. :-) Cheers, Phred. -- LID |
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Bottle-wash Plant
The genus Callistemon has recently been combined with the genus
Melaleuca. According to the editor of the Kew Checklist: Someone did that but it has already been proven unnecessary and is therefore not followed. In other words, Callistemon is still a separate genus. Iris |
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