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Gaudium semibaccatum

Leptospermum semibaccatum

Gaudium semibaccatum
Photo: Ian McMaster, CC BY 3.0

Gaudium semibaccatum (Leptospermum semibaccatum) is a low, dense tea-tree shrub native to coastal heath in eastern Australia, typically under 0.5 m to about 2 m tall, with small white or pink flowers. It suits sandy, poorly drained soil in full sun and is grown mainly as a garden shrub.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the soil moist while establishing, then water during dry spells; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Sandy, free-draining but moisture-retentive, acidic mix
Temperature
Mild temperate to subtropical; tolerates light frost, protect below about -5 °C
How easy
Moderate

About

Gaudium semibaccatum is a species of low, dense shrub that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has egg-shaped to narrow elliptical leaves with a blunt tip, white or pink flowers and hairy, flat-topped fruit that falls from the plant shortly after the seeds are released. It grows in poorly-drained soil in coastal heath.

Where it grows

This tea-tree grows in sandy soil in poorly drained-coastal heath between Bundaberg in Queensland and Forster in New South Wales.

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 Gaudium semibaccatum 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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