Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leptospermum lanigerum
Common name
Woolly tea-tree, Mountain tea-tree
Family
Where found
Forest, woodland, swamps, along streams, gullies, and sandy swamps. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 6 m tall. Bark on smaller stems smooth, shedding in stringy strips, on larger stems fibrous, rough. Younger stems hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.3-2 cm long, mostly 2-4 mm wide, margins usually curved down, surfaces hairy at least on the lower surface; tips tapering abruptly and folded upwards, with a blunt point, bases tapering to a very short broad-based stalk. Sepals narrowly triangular to triangular, 3–5 mm long, pointed, hairy on the outer surface, persisting on the nuts. Flowers about 12-15 mm in diameter, with 5 white petals, single. Flowers Spring to Summer. Nuts persisting, 5-15 mm in diameter, woolly at first, surface lifting and becoming scaly.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptospermum~lanigerum (accessed 22 January, 2021)
Additional information in: Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 427-428, map 9-67
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