Beaufortia (plant) tallest are up to in height. Most are andromonoecious, meaning they have both male and bisexual flowers on one plant. The flowers are in spikelike or headlike inflorescences. The flower has five triangular sepals and five white, yellow, red, pink, or purple petals, which are sometimes hairy. The petals usually fall off as the flower opens, or shortly after that. The stamens are red or deep pink, arranged in five bundles and extend well beyond the petals, giving the inflorescence its colour. Unlike other closely related genera such as "Melaleuca", the anthers are attached to the filament at their base
Lavender (color) or a "light pinkish purple". The term "lavender" may be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light or greyish purples but only on the pink side. Lilac is pale purple on the blue side. In paints, the colour lavender is made by mixing purple and white paint. The first recorded use of the word "lavender" as a color term in English was in 1705. Originally, the name "lavender" only applied to flowers. By 1930, the book "A Dictionary of Color" identified three major shades of lavender—"[floral] lavender", "lavender gray", and "lavender blue", and in addition