Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

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Description: Callistemon 'Mauve Mist', Taken: 17 December 2018, [HERBARIUM SPECIMEN] ACRA NO: Acc 29 Copyright : Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR) holds copyright
Photographer: Palmer, R.

Callistemon 'Mauve Mist'

File Number

29

ACRA Field Book Number

-

Registration Date

28/05/1978

Application Received

21/10/1967

Family

Myrtaceae

Cultivar Name

Callistemon 'Mauve Mist'

Origin

Callistemon 'Mauve Mist'is a seedling selected from about 300 which were raised from seed collected from Callistemon 'Reeve's Pink'.

Characteristics

This cultivar forms a dense shrub to a height of about 3m with an equal or slightly wider spread. The leaves are entire and about 50mm long by about 8mm wide.The new tip growth is pink and densely covered with silky hairs.The flowers are produced in dense "bottlebrush " clusters. The clusters are often produced in bunches. Individual "bottlebrushes"are pinkish mauve and about 70mm long by about 50mm wide. The stamens are the colourful part of the flower. It is reported that this cultivar will flower as late as Christmas. Diagnosis: This cultivar is different from Callistemon 'Reeve's Pink' in flower colour. Callistemon 'Mauve Mist' has pinkish-mauve "brushes" compared with pink for Callistemon 'Reeve's Pink'.

Cultivation

Hardy, reliable and adaptable cultivar which flowers prolifically, growing well in most soils. Best in a sunny site but will tolerate some shade. It responds well to heavy pruning and is drought tolerant and frost hardy.

Publication

Australian Cultivar Registration Authority (1978), Callistemon Cultivars. Australian Plants 10(77): 23

Colour Coding

R.H.S. Colour Chart, 1966 edition. Flowers: Just released stamens:red-purple 71 B, Fully released stamens:Between 67B and C

Propagation

Cuttings

Applicant Name

Mr. G. Wilson.

Uses

As part of a mass planting or mixed in a shrubbery, or as a spectacular feature plant.

Availability

ANPS Canberra, widely available

ANBG Accession Numbers

ACC29, CBG8006355,8006356

NSL ID

-