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Spidery Tea Tree

Leptospermum arachnoides

Also called Stiff Tea Tree

Spidery Tea Tree
Photo: John Tann from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
SE. Queensland to New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Leptospermum arachnoides, commonly known as the spidery tea-tree, is a species of shrub that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough bark, crowded linear to lance-shaped leaves with a sharp point on the end, white flowers and hairy fruit.

Where it grows

Spidery tea-tree grows in moist heath and sclerophyll forest, usually on shallow soils derived from sandstone and granite. It occurs between south-east Queensland and the Tinderry Range in New South Wales.

Other Leptospermum plants

Tea Trees · Leptospermum amboinense · Aggreflorum anfractum · Leptospermum argenteum · Leptospermum barneyense · Aggreflorum benwellii · Gaudium blakelyi · Aggreflorum brachyandrum · Gaudium confertum · Prickly Tea Tree · Gaudium coriaceum · Leptospermum crassifolium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptospermum arachnoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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