Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Leptospermum crassifolium

Common name

A tea-tree

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Wet heath amongst rocks on mountain peaks. Ranges in and between Budawang National Park and Morton National Park east of Nerriga.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m tall. Bark rough and finely fissured. Younger stems hairy with minute hairs. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.5-0.8 cm long, 3-4 mm wide, thick, margins curved down, surfaces mostly hairless, lower surface with prominent glands, tips broad-pointed, curved and folded in, bases broad above a broad based stalk. Flowers about 18 mm in diameter, with 5 white petals, single. Flowers Summer. Nuts persistent, mostly 8-10 mm in diameter, surface lifting.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptospermum~crassifolium  (accessed 12 January, 2021)

Additional information in: Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 438-439, map 9-78