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Smooth teatree

Leptospermum glabrescens

Smooth teatree
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Smooth teatree is a shrub or small tree from East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, growing 1.5 to 6 m tall, with white flowers in summer. It grows naturally in swampy ground and along watercourses, so it needs consistently moist soil.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist and do not let it dry out.
Soil
Moist, acidic, well-drained-but-damp loam or peaty mix.
Temperature
10–25 °C; tolerates cool temperate climates but protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Victoria (East Gippsland Distr.)
Climate
subtropical

About

Leptospermum glabrescens, commonly known as the smooth teatree, is a shrub or small tree that is endemic to East Gippsland in Victoria, Australia. It has linear, elliptic or narrow egg-shaped leaves, white flowers arranged singly on short side shoots and fruit that remain on the plant.

Where it grows

Smooth teatree grows in swampy areas and on the edge of watercourses in east Gippsland, from near Cape Conran to near Mallacoota, with a disjunct population near Buchan.

Other Leptospermum plants

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 Leptospermum glabrescens 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.

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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