Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leptospermum divaricatum

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

Flowering branches. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Cocoparra National Park east of Griffith

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

Common name

A tea tree

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Woodland, mallee, and heath. Western Slopes.

Notes

Shrub to 4 m high. Bark rough, compacted, fibrous. Leaf tips sharp pointed. Younger stems hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, usually 0.2–0.7 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, surfaces with some silky or curled hairs, bases tapering to a short broad stalk. Flowers 6–10 mm in diameter, white, with 5 white petals, single. Flowering: August–October. Nuts shed early, about 4 mm in diameter, surface hairy.

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

Additional information in: Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 386-387, map 5-38