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Xanthostemon youngii C.T.White & W.D.Francis Crossosoma californicum Nutt.

Family	:	Myrtaceae
Local name	:	English-Crimson penda
Flowering and fruiting period	:	Flowers  throughout the year
Distribution	:	Endemic to Queensland
Habitat	:	Usually grows as a rheophyte along creeks and watercourses in open forest and rain forest. · Distribution— Endemic to Queensland,
Endemic/Exotic	:	Endemic to north eastern Queensland
Uses	:	It is cultivated as an ornamental plant
Key botanical characters: It is a tree .. The bark is rough and the habit bushy. The shiny green elliptic leaves are arranged in whorls. The flower-heads, or racemes, are at branch-ends or in leaf-axils and measure  They are made up of numerous small, , individual crimson red flowers. Flowering is followed by small, 1-1,5 cm wide, green or brown woody capsules .