红千层又名瓶刷子树,系桃金娘科常绿灌木或小乔木,高1～5米。原产澳大利亚,两年前引入我国。该树种树形优美,花形独特,适应性强,生长快,能在不同的气候和海拔高度种植,因而必将成为园林绿化的新优树种。该树种的叶条形,似柳叶而终年不凋,草质,有特殊香味。穗状花序顶生,春末夏初,火树红花,满枝吐焰,颇为奇特美观。花期3～7月。红千层株形美观,干形曲折苍老,小枝密集成丛,树冠圆球形,是庭园观花树、行道树首选树种,还可作防风林,上山绿化,作切 Melaleuca also known as bottle brush tree, Department of Myrtaceae evergreen shrubs or small trees, 1 to 5 meters high. Origin of Australia, introduced to China two years ago. The tree has a beautiful tree shape, unique flower shape, strong adaptability and fast growth, and can be planted in different climates and altitudes so that it will surely become a new tree species for landscaping. The tree species of leaf-shaped, like willow leaves throughout the year without withered, grassy, ​​with special fragrance. Spikes end of spring and early summer, fireworks safflower, full spit flame, quite strange appearance. Flowering from March to July. Melaleuca plant beautiful, dry twists and turns old, twigs dense into clumps, crowns spherical shape, is the garden flower trees, trees preferred tree species, but also for windbreak, up the green, for the cut