Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leptospermum emarginatum
Common name
Twin-flower tea-tree
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Stream banks and along rocky creeks. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m tall. Bark irregular and rough. Bark on smaller stems becoming rough, occasionally shedding in stringy strips. Young stems hairy, soon becoming hairless. A wide flange on young stems at the base of the leaf stalks. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 1-3.5 cm long, usually 2.5-7 mm wide, flat, mostly hairless, tapering to a broad base, margins flat to curved upwards, tips notched. Flowers about 7-9 mm in diameter, with 5 white petals 3-4 mm long, in clusters of up to 5 flowers. Flowers Spring to Summer. Nuts 3.5–5 mm in diameter, shed early.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptospermum~emarginatum (accessed 22 January, 2021)
Additional information in: Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 388-390, map 6-39
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