BRUSHY FLOWERS

Bottlebrush (Burashinoki in Japanese) observed in a residential garden in NISHIOGI.

The evergreen flowering trees originated in Australia, and their heights are 1.2-3m. The flowers have various colors such as red, pink and white.

Amazingly, the shape of the flowers looks exactly like cylindrical brushes for cleaning bottles, and it is interesting to observe how the filaments change in color and become tangled as time goes by.

In the language of flowers, bottlebrush signify, for example, fires of love and flames of love.

ブラシ状の花

西荻の民家の庭先で観察した常緑小高木・ボトルブラッシュ（和名：ブラシノキ＜金宝樹＞）。

オーストラリア原産で、背丈は1.2～3ｍ、花の色は赤、ピンク、白など多様。

花の姿が、英名の表すごとくビンを洗うための円筒ブラシそっくりなのが驚きだ。満開後、時間が経つにつれ花糸が変色し絡みあうような姿になるのも興味深い。

花言葉は、「恋の火」、「恋の炎」など。