Talk:Callistemon
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Changed max height. I have a C. viminalis in my back yard that is over 8 metres tall and they regularly reach 15 metres. Anyone planting one expecting a 4 metre shrub will be surprised, to say the least.
Bottlebrush are used as landscape plants in Florida: not super-common, but widespread. There is a data sheet at hort.ufl.edu/trees/CALCITA.pdf ... It would be interesting to know where else these plants are cultivated. 71.30.253.207 (talk) 22:25, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It says that Callistemon was recently (when?) placed in the genus Meleleuca. If this is true, shouldn't the opening be changed to reflect that it is no longer a separate genus? Murderbike (talk) 22:33, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Was it really by a vandal? See: "Novon 16 468-475; December 2006 "New Combinations in Melaleuca for Australian Species of Callistemon (Myrtaceae)". If no access to that journal is available see: http://asgap.org.au/leptos1.html (yeah, the page is about Leptospermum mainly, but about halfway down is the Melaleuca and Callistemon reference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.238.148.134 (talk) 07:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
in short, not yet
"Over the years there have been suggestions that the differences between species of the two genera are not sufficient to warrant them being kept distinct. A paper by Lyn Craven of the Australian National Herbarium (Novon 16 468-475; December 2006 "New Combinations in Melaleuca for Australian Species of Callistemon (Myrtaceae)") argues that the differences between the two genera are insufficient to warrant them being retained separately and that they should be combined. As Melaleuca has precedence, adoption of Craven's work would transfer all species of Callistemon into Melaleuca but at this stage the re-classification has not been taken up by the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (although the Queensland herbarium has accepted the change).
Craven's work is the basis of a forthcoming volume of the "Flora of Australia", so the possibilitity remains that Callistemon will eventually be subsumed into Melaleuca."--Hypo Mix (talk) 06:52, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I was viewing the page view statistics for this page, and there is a significant increase in page views in May/April.See here: https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2016-01&end=2020-06&pages=Melaleuca%7CCallistemon.
Does anyone know why? What are your thoughts?
It is wierd as every other genera I have tested do not have this pattern in page views.
--Ben (talk) 05:14, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
In what season does it grow? 109.166.138.145 (talk) 17:19, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]