Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Melaleuca linariifolia

Flower spike and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Cambewarra near Nowra

Flowering branches and nuts. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, unknown photographer, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Snow-in-summer, Flax-leaved paperbark, Budjur

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest, heath, grassy areas, moist areas, and stream banks. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 10 m tall. Bark papery. Branchlets initially hairy, soon becoming hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite or almost opposite each other, 1-4.5 cm long, 1-3.5 mm wide, tips pointed, surfacees hairless. Flower heads 15-40 mm long, many-flowered, white. Individual flowers with 5 petals each about 3 mm long. Stamens about 8-20 mm long. Flowers Spring to Summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melaleuca~linariifolia (accessed 25 January, 2021)