The Bottle Brush Plant, also known as Callistemon, is a tree with bright flowers that have a cylindrical, bottle brush-like appearance The brush that one inserts inside bottles to clean them. Yes, ...

The average person might think of koalas, kangaroos and Crocodile Dundee when Australia is mentioned. But many Florida gardeners think of Callistemon plants — collectively called bottlebrushes.

Apart from being ­remarkably beautiful, they were completely different than those in most other parts of the world. They gazed in wonder at banksia, melaleuca and callistemon flower spikes, many of ...