Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leptospermum grandiflorum
Common name
A tea-tree
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Rocky areas. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, Blue Mountains, and Newnes State Forest near Lithgow.
Notes
Introduced shrub to 5m or more tall. Bark rough. Younger stems with rather stiff white shining hairs, mostly appressed to the stems. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.5-1.8 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, thick, greyish-green, often hairy with densely appressed hairs and rather prominent glands, margins almost flat but tending to fold in near the tips, tips blunt or very pointed or rounded with a small notch, often with a minute curved down blunt point, the bases tapering to a short, broad stalk and often slightly twisted.. Flowers about 20 mm in diameter, with 5 white or occasionally pink petals. Flowers Summer-Autumn. Nuts persisting, 9-12 mm in diameter.
Native to eastern Tasmania.
Description above based on Thompson, J., (1989) A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 423-424, map 8-64
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