bottlebrush

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Blue-blooming plumbago shrubs, red bottlebrush trees and flowers all around.

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  1. noun Any of various Australian shrubs or trees of the genera Callistemon and Melaleuca, having densely flowered, cylindrical spikes with numerous, long, protruding stamens that suggest a brush used to clean bottles.

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  • They appear together all the time in nature-a strawberry, a poppy, a bottlebrush tree-which makes them perfect for spring decorating, not just for holiday cheer. —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • Blue-blooming plumbago shrubs, red bottlebrush trees and flowers all around. —  SplicedFeed
  • It can be a sleep coil folded around a sitting or sleeping cat, a fluffy scarf across a curled cat's nose or an erect bristling bottlebrush when the cat is frightened. —  doggdot.us
  • Hydrangeas, daylilies and bottlebrush buckeyes provide landscape blooms and roadsides display their patriotic hues of red clover, white Queen Anne's lace and the blue-sky blossoms of chicory.
 

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