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Bottlebrushes Callistemon

The rated Callistemon records split: 0 fire-resistant, 1 keep-away, 2 in documented conflict. These counts describe the cited records — 5 records carrying 48 evidence rows from 18 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.

Rated as a group: Callistemon Callistemon sp. Documented conflict Disputed 7 sources rate the genus as a whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never override a species record. ›

Keep away

1 species

Bottlebrush Keep away Callistemon rigidus Limited evidence · 10 sources genus-level claims ↑

Documented conflict

1 species

honest ties — treat conservatively near structures

Bottlebrush Documented conflict Callistemon citrinus Guía de pirojardinería says low · the Tasmania Fire Service list says high Zones 7–7 genus-level claims ↑

Awaiting evidence

2 species

About bottlebrushes

Corpus context. Callistemon is the directory's #144 largest of 550 genus groups: 5 records carrying 48 evidence rows from 18 cited sources, recorded as shrub, tree , hardy across USDA zones 7–7. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.

More about Callistemon: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.

Where rated bottlebrushes grow

Tagged as growing in 9 states.

See Callistemon on Grow → · JSON