Greek kalos— beautiful, thamnos — bush or shrub.
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves mostly cylindrical. Flower clusters few together or in a dense spike, never terminal and often on one side of the stem. Flowers 4 or 5-parted, red, on the old wood. Petals falling before the stamens mature. Stamens in 4 or 5 bundles opposite and longer than the petals; anthers attached at the base. Ovary 3-chambered. Fruit a 3-valved woody capsule, often with persistent woody sepals.
Grown for the attractive fine foliage and deep red bird-attracting, bottlebrush-like flowers.
About 40 species from SW WA.
Seed or occasionally cuttings.
Flower clusters bottlebrush-like but mostly irregularly 1-sided; anthers attached at the base.
Hawkeswood (1980, 1984, 1987).
Source: (2002). Myrtaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.