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Gaudium blakelyi

Leptospermum blakelyi

Gaudium blakelyi
Photo: Chris Jonkers, CC BY-SA 4.0

Gaudium blakelyi (Leptospermum blakelyi) is a small, spreading tea-tree shrub from rocky clifftops near Lithgow in New South Wales, Australia, with white or pink flowers in November to December. It is a rare wild species seldom grown in gardens, so care advice is drawn from general knowledge of the tea-tree group.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; it tolerates dry spells once mature.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, acidic soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; frost-hardy to about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate

About

Gaudium blakelyi is a species of shrub that is endemic to rocky clifftops near Lithgow in New South Wales. It has densely silky young stems, egg-shaped to elliptical leaves and white or pink flowers.

Where it grows

This tea-tree grows on rocky clifftops in heath near Lithgow.

Other Leptospermum plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gaudium blakelyi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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