Planting and caring for the cylinder cleaner is astonishingly simple given the extravagant flowers.
 The crimson cylinder cleaner (Callistemon citrinus), like all cylinder cleaner species, comes from Australia, where it grows on damp to wet, sometimes even flooded soils near water. The small, evergreen shrub from the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) came to Europe as early as 1788 and has been offered by gardeners for cultivation in private home gardens or conservatories since around 1815. As a container plant with idiosyncratic but beautiful flowers, the cylinder cleaner is as popular today as it was then.