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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Kees Jan on March 04, 2012, 07:15:21 PM

Title: Shrub in Buenos Aires botanical gardens
Post by: Kees Jan on March 04, 2012, 07:15:21 PM

What on earth could this be? It is very beautiful. Photographed last January in Buenos Aires Botanical Gardens. I would not be surprised if it is something from New-Zealand or Australia, but what on earth could it be? It was about 2-3m high. The climate in Buenos Aires is subtropical I would say.  :o ::) :o

Title: Re: Shrub in Buenos Aires botanical gardens
Post by: ronm on March 04, 2012, 07:18:31 PM

Callistemon pallidus ?

Title: Re: Shrub in Buenos Aires botanical gardens
Post by: Kees Jan on March 04, 2012, 07:25:34 PM

Thanks. C. pallidus looks very similar but the leaves in the plant I photographed seems to be much narrower and smaller than in the pics of C. pallidus that I found on the web... Perhaps a different species of Callistemon?

Title: Re: Shrub in Buenos Aires botanical gardens
Post by: majallison on March 04, 2012, 07:58:28 PM

Callistemon viridiflorus?

Title: Re: Shrub in Buenos Aires botanical gardens
Post by: Kees Jan on March 04, 2012, 09:21:18 PM

thanks, but leaves seem to be narrower I think

Title: Re: Shrub in Buenos Aires botanical gardens
Post by: Ezeiza on March 04, 2012, 09:42:49 PM

It's been for years known as Callistemon salignus but now in Melaleuca. It is very tough although difficult to blend in (too  open and lax in this climate).

Title: Re: Shrub in Buenos Aires botanical gardens
Post by: Kees Jan on March 05, 2012, 06:16:07 PM

Thanks!

Title: Re: Shrub in Buenos Aires botanical gardens
Post by: Oron Peri on March 12, 2012, 01:44:11 PM

It is Melaleuca lanceolata.
Both Callistemon salignus and C. pallidus have compleetly different leaves.

Title: Re: Shrub in Buenos Aires botanical gardens
Post by: Paul T on March 12, 2012, 08:49:07 PM

I would definitely be thinking Melaleuca, as Oron says, but i'm not up on the species enough to know which one.  Looks more petite than the leaves of Callistemon.

Title: Re: Shrub in Buenos Aires botanical gardens
Post by: Otto Fauser on March 12, 2012, 10:53:37 PM

Quote from: Oron Peri on March 12, 2012, 01:44:11 PM

It is Melaleuca lanceolata.
Both Callistemon salignus and C. pallidus have compleetly different leaves.

Oron is always right -even with australian native plants !
I checked in a nursery that specialises in australian flora and it is Melaleuca lanceolata.