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Round Leaved Tea Tree

Leptospermum rotundifolium

Round Leaved Tea Tree
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
CE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Leptospermum rotundifolium, commonly known as round-leaved tea tree, is a species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, naturalised in Victoria and Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with more or less circular leaves but with a small point on the tip, and relatively large pink or white flowers.

Where it grows

Leptospermum rotundifolium grows in rocky places in shrubby heath or forest from near Sydney to Nerriga in near-coastal areas of New South Wales. It has also been naturalised in a small area in the Shire of Manjimup in south-western Western Australia and was recorded once in eastern Victoria.

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 rotundifolium 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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