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Leptospermum squarrosum
Also called The Peach Blossom Teatree, Peach Blossom Teatree, Peach Blossom Tea Tree, Peach Flowered Tea Tree
Pink tea tree is a hardy, upright Australian shrub from central eastern New South Wales, grown for its white or pink flowers. Give it full sun and well-drained soil, and it will tolerate exposed positions and salt spray.
Leptospermum squarrosum, commonly known as the peach blossom tea-tree, is an upright shrub of the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to central eastern New South Wales. It has thin, firm bark, broadly lance-shaped to elliptical leaves, relatively large white or pink flowers and fruit that remain on the plant when mature.
This tea-tree is a hardy shrub that grows best in a sunny situation in well-drained soil, but is salt-resistant and tolerates exposed positions.
Peach blossom tea-tree grows in shrubland on sandstone soils in coastal areas and nearby tablelands of New South Wales, but especially in the Sydney region.
Gaudium laevigatum · Aggreflorum longifolium · Mānuka · Teatree
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptospermum squarrosum 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.
