Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Melaleuca sieberi

Flowering branches. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering branches. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer D Verdon, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A paperbark

Family

 Myrtaceae

Where found

Wet heath. Sydney area.

Notes

Shrub or small tree to 5 m high. Bark papery. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.4–1.5 cm long, 1–4 mm wide, tips pointed, surfacees hairless. Flowers in few- to many-flowered spikes 10–40 mm long. Individual flowers with 5 white petals, or petals sometimes tinged with pink, each 2–3 mm long. Stamens much longer than the petals. Flowers summer.

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