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2 unusual facts about Callistemon 'Lilacinus'


Callistemon 'Lilacinus'

albus, which was "discovered in nature" at Long Bay by Mr H. Burrell, and currently given the name C. citrinus 'Lilacinus Albus'.

The cultivar was first selected in Berlin in 1913 from plants raised from seed collected near Como, New South Wales by German botanist Ernst Betsche in 1894.



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