Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leptospermum grandifolium
Common name
Mountain Tea-tree, Woolly tea-tree
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, rocky areas, along streams, and swamps. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub or small tree to 25 m tall. Leaves sharp pointed. Bark papery, peeling off in strips or flakes. Younger stems hairy with minute hairs, becoming hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 1-3.5 cm long, 3-8 mm wide, margins curved down or flat, upper surface hairless, lower surface felted or silky to hairless, or silky on both surfaces, tips blunt with a small point or pointed, bases more or less tapering to a short stalk. Flowers 12 to more than 18 mm in diameter, with 5 white petals, and 5 small red or dark pink sepals. Flowers single. Flowers Spring to Autumn. Nuts persisting, 5-10 mm in diameter, surface lifting and flaking, finally rather smooth.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptospermum~grandifolium (accessed 12 January, 2021)
Additional information in: Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 425-427, map 9-66
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