A hardy evergreen native shrub that is not well known in cultivation but is extremely attractive and very useful as a screen or windbreak - apart from being very ornamental as well.
It has dense, bright green, narrow-elliptic shaped foliage that is pointed at the tip and covered in silky hairs. It produces very conspicuous puffy red bottlebrush flowers that are yellow tipped throughout summer, each one is around 60-80 mm long. these are followed by woody capsule seeds.
The bark is grey and peels back in very Meleleuca type fashion.