Happy #Thursjay good people. Here we have a California scrub-jay (Aphelocoma californica) feeding on a bottlebrush (Callistemon sp?) flower San Benito County, California.
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#wildlife
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#corvids
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#bottlebrush
#myrtaceae
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Photo of a green plate on which rests a mound of brown, dried, immature fruits. On the top of the mound sits a clear rectangular bottle filled with the dried fruits. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
When I lived in Florida, I grew Pimenta dioica, a small tree from Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean. Its dried, immature fruits are the source of allspice, so I harvested & dried my own. At the rate I use it, it may be a lifetime supply of allspice. 😂 #Myrtaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of the base of the trunk of a tree from which dozens of pink, plump flower buds emerge. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Photo of the trees of the previous photo. Each tree has a single, unbranched trunk at the top of wich is a rosette of enormous, paddle-shaped leaves. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Syzygium acre is endemic to New Caledonia & is noted for its cauliflory, i.e., it produces flowers & fruits on the trunk. These are flower buds not yet open. It is also a schopfbaume (“tufted tree”), a palm-like single-stemmed tree with a terminal crown of large leaves. #Myrtaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Close-up photo of a shoot bearing flower buds. In many buds, the cap is just beginning to fall away, revealing the incurved stamens. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
We can’t talk Myrtaceae without mentioning Eucalyptus, which has speciated like mad in Australia. The name Eucalyptus (“true [or beautiful] cap”) describes the sepals & petals fused into a calyptra (cap) that falls away from the stamen flowers. 📷: Eucalyptus woodwardii #Myrtaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of the flowers and foliage. Each flower has showy stamens but also has four large, pink recurved petals. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Feijoa sellowiana (formerly Acca s.), of s. Brazil, n. Argentina & Uruguay, has flowers pollinated by passerine birds (Thraupsis, Mimus, Tangara, Turdus, etc.), which consume the sugar-rich petals (we can eat them, too!). Insects can also effect pollination. #pollination #Myrtaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a shoot with needle-like leaves and axillary flowers. Each flower has stamen visibly fused at the base into fascicles. The stamens are held together to form a narrow, slightly curved tube. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Melaleuca peucophylla of Western Australia was formerly placed in the genus Calothamnus, but that genus is now sunk into Melaleuca. The stamens are in clusters & form a flower adapted to bird pollination. #pollination #Myrtaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of clusters of yellow stamen flowers against a green leafy background. Each flower has a central cup, the hypanthium, on the rim of which the stamens are attached. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Myrtaceae flowers are often stamen flowers, i.e. stamens are showy, colorful & attract pollinators. The flowers have a hypanthium in which nectar collects. The hypanthium is the cup structure from whose rim the sepals, petals, and stamens arise. 📷: Xanthostemon chrysanthus #Myrtaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of leafy branches and one bearing clusters of red berries. Each berry has a terminal scar showing where the perianth was attached and indicating these fruits are from inferior ovaries. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Many species of Myrtaceae have opposite leaves with a well-developed vein running just inside the margin. Many genera have inferior ovaries and fleshy fruits, like these Syzygium thalassicum, while another large group of genera has ± superior ovaries and capsules. #Myrtaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a leaf with transmitted light showing translucent veins and small dots in the lamina.
Myrtaceae leaves usually have pellucid dots, i.e., dots that are visible with transmitted light. These bodies form from several cells that coalesce & are filled with the essential oils that give the leaves their fragrance when crushed. Eucalyptus blaxlandii 📷: Sam CCBYNC4 #Myrtaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of pendulous leafy branches, one of which has group of red showy flowers comprised of many long stamens. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 4.0.
The Myrtaceae are a large, worldwide (mostly S Hemisphere) group of woody plants, many of which are familiar in cultivation: guava, eucalyptus, myrtle, Melaleuca (née Callistemon). Leaves are usually opposite & always aromatic when crushed. 📷: Melaleuca viminalis #Myrtaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
#Myrtaceae (/mərˈteɪsiˌaɪ, -siːˌiː/), the myrtle family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, pōhutukawa, bay rum tree, clove, guava
#Myrtaceae (/mərˈteɪsiˌaɪ, -siːˌiː/), the myrtle family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, pōhutukawa, bay rum tree, clove, guava
#Myrtaceae (/mərˈteɪsiˌaɪ, -siːˌiː/), the myrtle family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, pōhutukawa, bay rum tree, clove, guava
Photo of leafy shoots with tiny leaves and bare stems along which small, woody capsules are tightly clustered together like sleeves around the stems. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Melaleuca huegelii is from Western Australia. Like many Melaleuca spp., it’s a serotinous species. The fruits are retained in capsules until released by heat/fire. #Myrtaceae #serotiny #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Syzygium paniculatum, Myrtaceae
Townsville, North Queensland,
Australia
Feb 2026
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(1/4) Myrtaceae (esta vez no me atrevo a aventurar ni siquiera el género)
Parque Juan Carlos I. Madrid, España. Noviembre de 2025.
#garcellor #parquejuancarlosi #floresdeotoño #myrtaceae #callistemon #melaleuca #calistemo #limpiatubos #limpiabotellas
Eucalyptus shirleyi
(Shirley's Silver-leaved Ironbark)
Myrtaceae
Townsville, Queensland
Australia
October 2025
#Eucalyptusshirleyi #Shirley'sSilver-leavedIronbark
#Myrtaceae #ozflora #botany #NativeFlora #Flora #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky
Xanthostemon verticillatus
(Bloomfield Penda)
Myrtaceae
Townsville, Queensland
Australia
October 2025
#XanthostemonVerticillatus #BloomfieldPenda
#Myrtaceae #ozplants #ozflora #botany #NativeFlora #Flora #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky
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Rhodomyrtus tomentosa
Myrtaceae
Townsville, Queensland,
October 2025
#RhodomyrtusTomentosa #Myrtaceae #RoseMyrtle #Flora #Plants #Nature #naturePhotography #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky
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#MelaleucaGibbosa, commonly known as the slender honey-myrtle or small-leaved honey-myrtle is a plant in the myrtle #family, #Myrtaceae and is endemic to southern #Australia. It is a dense, bushy shrub that grows about 2 metres (6.6 ft) tall, with numerous slender, arching branches.
Corymbia terminalis
Myrtaceae
Dotswood Road,
Charters Towers LGA.
2017
#CorymbiaTerminalis #Myrtaceae #ozplants #ozflora #AustralianFlora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky
Syzygium branderhorstii
Myrtaceae
Ayr, Nth. Queensland
Australia
#SyzygiumBranderhorstii #Myrtaceae #ozplants #ozflora #AustralianFlora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky
Corymbia citriodora
Myrtaceae
South Millstream, Ravenshoe,
Queensland, Australia.
#LemonScentedGum #Myrtaceae #LemonScentedGum #ozplants #ozflora #AustralianFlora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky
Corymbia abergiana
Myrtaceae
Running River, Nth. Queensland,
Australia Sept 2020
#CorymbiaAbergiana #Myrtaceae #RangeBloodwood #ozplants #ozflora #AustralianFlora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky
#Metrosideros robusta tree; #TerraNostra Park (Portuguese: Parque Terra Nostra)
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#Portugal #Azores #SaoMiguel #travel #nature #vegetation #Furnas #Myrtaceae #kiwi #NewZealand
Folds of fabric featuring bright red stamen-rich pōhutukawa flowers and blue-green tūī honeyeater birds.
Last minute #EcologicalFashion (or is that #BotanicalFashion?) sewing project for #Botany2025 conference clothes, featuring pōhutukawa #Myrtaceae and pollinator tūī.
Time to move on and this time going to explore the various #Myrtaceae I have come across! This is a diverse family, most of the Australian genera (not all) form dry capsular fruit, and have a variety of floral morphologies with many having very conspicuous anthers!
