Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

Description: Callistemon 'Starlight', Taken: 23 January 2019, [HERBARIUM SPECIMEN] ACRA NO: Acc 476 Copyright : Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR) holds copyright
Photographer: Palmer, R.

Callistemon 'Starlight'

File Number

476

ACRA Field Book Number

374

Registration Date

28/11/2001

Application Received

30/11/1977

Family

Myrtaceae

Cultivar Name

Callistemon 'Starlight'

Origin

A seedling of Callistemon ‘Reeve's Pink’ (a cultivar with affinities to Callistemon citrinus) raised by Mr Glen Wilson, Fraser, ACT, in the late 1950’s. Application received by ACRA 30th November 1977. Applicant Mr Glen Wilson.

Characteristics

A large rounded shrub to 4m high x 4m across; leaves to 5cm x 1.5 cm, lanceolate, glabrous when mature, ending in short slightly pungent point; flower spikes to 10cm x 6 cm, white, terminal, usually solitary. Flowering late spring and summer. Diagnosis: Callistemon ‘Starlight’ differs from ‘Reeve's Pink’ in flower colour. It is much larger than either C. ‘Clearview White’ (sprawling habit) or C. viminalis ‘Wilderness White’ (weeping form).

Cultivation

This cultivar will grow in a wide range of soil and climatic conditions. Benefits from summer watering and pruning after flowering. Propagate by cuttings.

Publication

Elliot, W.R. & Jones, D.L. (1982), Encyclopaedia of Australian plants suitable for cultivation 2: 413, 427-428

Colour Coding

RHS Colour Chart 1966Filaments 155B (white group)Style 154C (yellow green group)

Propagation

Cuttings from semi-firm new growth

Applicant Name

Mr Glen Wilson.

Uses

As part of the shrubbery, screen planting or as a showy feature plant

Availability

Specialist native plant nurseries

ANBG Accession Numbers

ACC476; ACRA 395,374,493; CBG9105987, 9217478, 9012280

NSL ID

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