Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leptospermum multicaule
Common name
Silver tea-tree
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland and grassy areas, often along seepage lines. Western Slopes, ACT and nearby, and tablelands. Occasionally in the ranges.
Notes
Shrub, prostrate to sprawling or to 2 m tall. Bark rough and tending to shed loose fibres. Bark on smaller stems smooth, shedding in stringy strips. Younger stems hairy, occasionally hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.2-1 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, flat or concave in cross section, surfaces usually silky in part; tips pointed, with a short point tending to curve down; bases tapering into a short very broad stalk. Flowers usually 6-10 mm in diameter, with 5 white, occasionally pink, petals, single, occasionally 2 together. Flowers Spring. Nuts shed early, about 2-3.5 mm in diameter, surface silky.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptospermum~multicaule (accessed 25 January, 2021)
Additional information in: Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 385-386, map 5-37
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