Clues

1. This beautiful plant group contains around 40 species which belong to the Myrtle family.

2. It is a group of evergreen plants that mostly range from small to large shrubs with a small number of tree species.

3. These plants are very closely related to the well known paper bark species (Melaleuca plant group). This is quite evident when comparing the visual features of these two plant groups.

4. Each species within this plant group produce distinctive elongated oval foliage. These leaves grow to the very tip of each branch, which characteristicly finishing with a little spay of leaves that protrude from the ends of each flower .

5. The most striking aspect of these plants are their brightly coloured flowers, which occur in a wide range of colours, more commonly in red. Interestingly, these colours come from their many long, fine stamen rather than their petals which are small and inconspicuous.

6. At first glance these flowers appear to be one flower, though, on closer inspection you will find that they are actually made up of manny small flowers closely aligned at the tip of the plants branches.

7. The combined form of these multiple flowers look very much like the brushes you would use to clean narrow necked bottles and glasses.