Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leptospermum crassifolium

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

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

Branches with young nuts. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

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