Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leptospermum deuense

Flowers, leaves, and nuts. Photographer Don Wood, Hanging Mountain Lookout, Deua National Park

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

Common name

A tea-tree

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, and shrubland, usually on rocky ridges. Ranges and the eastern edge of the tablelands between east of Nimmitabel and the northern end of Deua National Park.

Notes

Shrub to about 1.5 m tall. Bark rough, finely fissured. Stems hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 1-3 cm long, 6-8 mm wide, lower surface hairy; tips folded upwards, point curved down; bases tapering to a distinct hairy stalk. Flowers about 15 mm in diameter, with 5 white petals 7-8 mm long, single or in pairs. Flowers Spring to Summer. Nuts probably rather variably persisting, about 8-10 mm in diameter, surface wrinkled.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptospermum~deuense (accessed 22 January, 2021)

Additional information in: Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 424-425, map 9-65