| Scientific Name: | Melaleuca citrina |
| Common Name: | crimson bottlebrush |
| Family Name: | Myrtaceae |
| Origin: | Australia / New Zealand |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Indoor plant, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Glabrous, Elliptic, Linear, Oblanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Red, Dark-red, May-Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Aug-Sep, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Tender broadleaf evergreen; leaves leathery, opposite, most blades oblanceolate to narrowly elliptical to linear, 5-7cm long x 4-17mm wide; margins entire, orange scented when crushed; flowers bottlebrush-like due to having very long filaments. | |