Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Melaleuca ericifolia

Common name

Swamp paperbark

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath, along streams, lake margins, and in swamps. Coastal, including the Sydney area away from the coast.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 8 m tall. Bark corky or papery. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, scattered or in whorls of 3, mostly 0.7-1.9 cm long, about 1 mm wide, linear, tips pointed, surfaces hairless. Flower spikes 7-17 mm long, many-flowered, white to cream. Individual flowers with 5 petals each about 1 mm long. Stamens 5–7 mm long. Flowers Spring to Summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melaleuca~ericifolia (accessed 24 January, 2021)