Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leptospermum epacridoideum

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Jervis Bay National Park, NSW

Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Casey Gibson, Beecroft Peninsula, Jervis Bay, NSW

Common name

Jervis Bay tea-tree

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Forest and dry and moist heath. Coast and ranges between west of Ulladulla and the Nowra district.

Notes

Shrub to more than 2 m tall. Bark rough and finely fissured, corrugated towards the base. Stems hairy with minute hairs. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.2-0.3 cm long, about 2 mm wide, thick, margins curved upwards, prominent glands on the lower surface, surfaces hairless; tips rounded and often with a conical point, bases broad above a short thick stalk. Flowers about 10 mm in diameter, with 5 white or pink petals about 5 mm long. Flowers Summer to Autumn. Nuts persistent, up to 8 mm in diameter, surface lifting, becoming gnarled.

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

Additional information in: Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 439-440, map 9-79