Melaleuca lanceolata
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Melaleuca lanceolatas (cultivated, labelled) Maranoa Gardens, Balwyn, Victoria, Australia
Photograph by Melburnian. Some rights reserved.
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DRYLAND TEA-TREE FACTS
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Common Name
Dryland Tea-tree
Description
The Dryland Tea-tree is a dense shrub or small tree growing to about 8m. The bark is rough and hard. Young branchlets are hairy. The alternate leaves are linear to narrow-elliptic with pointed tips, and grow to 5mm to 15mm long and 1mm to 3mm wide. The plant produced bottlebrush-like spikes of white flowers 2cm to 4cm long, mainly in summer. The individual flowers are grouped in threes. Petals are ovate and about 2mm long. The fruit are woody capsules about 4mm to 5mm in diameter.
Height
3m - 8m
Spread
3m - 5m
Habitat
mallee, open woodland, ridges, coastal cliffs and dunes, on sandy, loam and clay soils
Propagation
seed
Wildlife Interest
attracts nectar eating birds and insect eating birds, attracts butterflies. Birds may nest in foliage.
Distribution
New South Wales, Victoria., South Australia, Western Australia.
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Myrtales | | Family: | Myrtaceae | | Genus: | Melaleuca | | Species: | lanceolata | | Common Name: | Dryland Tea-tree |
Relatives in same Genus
Melaleuca huegelii
Melaleuca styphelioides
Melaleuca trichophylla
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