Tags: Cultivar (Cultivated Variety).
Callistemon ‘Lilacinus’ is a cultivar of the genus Callistemon. It grows to between 2.5 and 4 metres high and has purplish-violet inflorescences. Leaves are smooth and sharp pointed with thick margins and are 40 to 100 mm long and 6 to 18 mm wide.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. At this time it was referred to as C. lanceolatus var lilacina.
