Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leptospermum petraeum
Common name
A tea-tree
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Shrubby areas on exposed rocky outcrops in and near Kanangra-Boyd National Park
Notes
Introduced shrub to 3 m high. Leaves with sharp points. Bark rough, later flaking in strips. Younger stems with short hairs. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, variable in size but usually about 1.5 cm long and 5–6 mm wide, margins flat or curved down, surfaces mostly hairless; tips usually rounded with a small notch; bases tapering; stalkless. Flowers about 22 mm in diameter, with 5 white petals, single. Nuts long-persistent, 6–8 mm in diameter, surface lifting, later scaly.
Native to Queensland and northern NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptospermum~petraeum (accessed 22 January, 2021)
Additional information in: Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 436-437, map 9-76
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