Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Melaleuca quinquenervia
Common name
Broad-leaved paperbark, Paperbark
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Rainforest, coastal swamps and coastal lake margins. Coastal north from Wollongong. Occcasionally in the mountains to the west of Sydney.
Notes
Tree to 25 m tall. Bark papery, flaking in large patches. Stems sparsely hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 3-10 cm long, 8-25 mm wide, tips blunt, surfacees mostly with 5 prominent longitudinal veins, often hairy with appressed hairs. Flower spikes white to cream, sometimes greenish, many-flowered, mostly 20-50 mm long. Individual flowers with 5 petals each 2-4 mm long. Stamens 8-12 mm long. Flowers Autumn to Winter.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melaleuca~quinquenervia (accessed 25 January, 2021)
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