help identying this tree

llcali · 9th June 2011, 05:35 AM

Hi i have looked online for hours but cant identify this tree. Please help!!!

Eric Frei · 9th June 2011, 07:40 AM

Callistemon sp - bottlebrush

liss · 11th June 2011, 09:23 PM

apparently callistemons have been put into the species melaleuca
as botanists say differences are too minor to warrant them being kept distinct
Queensland herbarium has accepted this change
Just to keep us on our toes!

Branching Out TreeCare · 12th June 2011, 06:03 PM

Callistemon viminalis.

Bowani Siam · 14th June 2011, 05:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by liss

apparently callistemons have been put into the species melaleuca
as botanists say differences are too minor to warrant them being kept distinct
Queensland herbarium has accepted this change
Just to keep us on our toes!

Hahah, I was just reading into this possible change.. Back off Craven, we like our Callistemons just fine, thankyou very much!!!!!!

Quote:

The problem with the classification of Callistemon and Melaleuca on the basis of the arrangement of the stamens is that this supposed difference is not clear cut and Callistemon tends to merge into Melaleuca rather than being unambiguously distinct. The well known Callistemon viminalis is one that has often been discussed as not easily fitting the accepted definition of Callistemon.

Over the years there have been suggestions that the differences between species of the two genera are not sufficient to warrant them being kept distinct. A paper by Lyn Craven of the Australian National Herbarium (Novon 16 468-475; December 2006 "New Combinations in Melaleuca for Australian Species of Callistemon (Myrtaceae)") argues that the differences between the two genera are insufficient to warrant them being retained separately and that they should be combined. As Melaleuca has precedence, adoption of Craven's work would transfer all species of Callistemon into Melaleuca but at this stage the re-classification has not been taken up by the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (although the Queensland herbarium has accepted the change).

Craven's work is the basis of a forthcoming volume of the "Flora of Australia", so the possibilitity remains that Callistemon will eventually be subsumed into Melaleuca.

liss · 14th June 2011, 10:32 PM

yeah I refuse to call them melaleuca

jmcg.insight.gardens · 15th June 2011, 08:35 PM

not another name change.......Melaleuca syn Callistemon,

pretty hard keeping up with it all.

This ones going to be hard to explain to the layman.

9th June 2011, 05:35 AM	#1
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9th June 2011, 07:40 AM	#2
Eric Frei Admin - Owner Palm & Tree Services in Brisbane Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 12,994	Re: help identying this tree Callistemon sp - bottlebrush __________________ Protect your rights to work - Join Australian Tree Association My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Palm and Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist

11th June 2011, 09:23 PM	#3
liss Sappling Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: sunshine coast Posts: 10	Re: help identying this tree apparently callistemons have been put into the species melaleuca as botanists say differences are too minor to warrant them being kept distinct Queensland herbarium has accepted this change Just to keep us on our toes!

12th June 2011, 06:03 PM	#4
Branching Out TreeCare Sappling Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Whangarei, New Zealand Posts: 37	Re: help identying this tree Callistemon viminalis.

14th June 2011, 10:32 PM	#6
liss Sappling Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: sunshine coast Posts: 10	Re: help identying this tree yeah I refuse to call them melaleuca

15th June 2011, 08:35 PM	#7
jmcg.insight.gardens Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Mannering Park, Australia Posts: 623	Re: help identying this tree not another name change.......Melaleuca syn Callistemon, pretty hard keeping up with it all. This ones going to be hard to explain to the layman.

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