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Melaleuca bracteata
Also called Black Tea Tree, River Tea Tree, Black Teatree, Bracteate Honey Myrtle, Mock Olive, Prickly Leaf Teatree, White Cloudtree
In Singapore: Golden Tea Tree (Grown in Singapore)
Melaleuca bracteata, the river or black tea-tree, is a bushy Australian shrub or small tree from the myrtle family, usually 5 to 8 m tall, grown for its profuse cream flowers and adaptability. It is most often grown in full sun in well-drained soil and tolerates a range of conditions, including dry spells once established.
Melaleuca bracteata, commonly known as the black tea-tree, river tea-tree or mock olive is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It usually occurs as a large shrub but under ideal conditions can grow into a tree up to 10 m (30 ft) tall. It is an adaptable species in cultivation and a number of cultivars have been developed.
Black tea-tree occurs in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and from north-east Queensland southwards to the Macleay River in New South Wales. It grows near the coast and inland, along stream banks and in wet sites. In New South Wales it has been recorded on the Northern Tablelands, North Coast and North West Slopes biogeographic regions. In Western Australia it occurs in the Kimberley and in the Carnarvon and Pilbara biogeographic regions. There are also disjunct populations in South Australia.
Common netbush · Narrow Leaf Paperbark · Bracelet honey myrtle · Cajeput · Myrtle Family · Goldfields Bottlebrush · Blue Paperbark · Prickly Leaved Paperbark · Creek Tea–tree · Swamp paperbark · Slender Honey Myrtle · Weeping Paperbark
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melaleuca bracteata 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.
