Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Melaleuca nodosa

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

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, North Head, Sydney

Common name

Prickly-leaved Paperbark

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

A variety of habitats, especially in dry forest and coastal heath. Coast and ranges north of Wollongong. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub usually to 4 m high. Leaves with sharp tips. Bark corky to papery. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, mostly 1–4 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, rigid, very variable, cylindrical, linear or oblong, surfacees hairless. Flowers in dense heads. Individual flowers in clusters of 1-3, white to yellow, with 5 petals each 1–1.5 mm long. Stamens much longer than petals. Flowers spring–summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melaleuca~nodosa (accessed 10 April 2021)