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Melaleuca araucarioides

Melaleuca araucarioides
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
SSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Melaleuca araucarioides is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area of the south-west Western Australia. It is a many-branched shrub with the leaves arranged in a way that gives the plant the appearance of a conifer.

Where it grows

This melaleuca is confined to the Ongerup-Cape Riche area in the Esperance plains and Mallee biogeographic regions of Western Australia. It grows in well-drained sandy or loamy soils in heaths or open woodlands.

Other Melaleuca plants

Kalbarri Beaufortia · Dark Beaufortia · Badgingarra Beaufortia · Beaufortia bracteosa · Beaufortia burbidgeae · Stirling Range Bottlebrush · Gravel Bottlebrush · Elegant Beaufortia · Beaufortia empetrifolia · Beaufortia eriocephala · Grey Leaved Beaufortia · Beaufortia interstans

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melaleuca araucarioides 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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