The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Leptospermum fastigiatum
Leptospermopsis fastigiata is a small shrub native to sand plains and rocky outcrops in south-west Western Australia and western South Australia. It is a tea-tree in the myrtle family, grown mainly as a drought-tolerant native shrub that needs sandy, free-draining soil and full sun.
Leptospermopsis fastigiatum is a shrub that is endemic to the south-west of Australia. It has narrow egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and a small point on the tip, white flowers arranged singly or in pairs on short side shoots and small fruit that fall off when mature.
This tea-tree is found on sand plains and among rocky outcrops in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia extending into the Great Victoria Desert in western South Australia, growing in sandy soils.
This plant contains essential oils, including 82.8% α-pinene.
Tea Trees · Leptospermum amboinense · Aggreflorum anfractum · Spidery Tea Tree · Leptospermum argenteum · Leptospermum barneyense · Aggreflorum benwellii · Gaudium blakelyi · Aggreflorum brachyandrum · Gaudium confertum · Prickly Tea Tree · Gaudium coriaceum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptospermopsis fastigiata 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.
