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Melaleuca cajuputi
Also called Cajuput, White samet, Cajaput, Cajaput Tree, Paperbark Teatree, Swamp Teatree
In Singapore: Gelam, Paper Bark Tree, Kayu Puteh, Tea Tree, Paper-bark, Cajeput, Cajeput Oil Tree, White Tree, White Wood, 白千层 (Native to Singapore, Data deficient)
Cajeput is a medium to tall tree in the myrtle family, known for papery bark and a source of cajuput oil; it is a species, not a genus. It grows best in warm, wet or seasonally flooded conditions and is most at home in tropical swamps.
Melaleuca cajuputi, commonly known as cajuput or white samet is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is widespread in Australia, Southeast Asia, New Guinea and the Torres Strait islands. It is a medium to tall tree with papery bark, silvery new growth and white or greenish flower spikes. It has important uses as a source of cajuput oil.
Melaleuca cajuputi subsp. cajuputi occurs in the Dampier Peninsula, Calder River, Fitzroy Crossing district in the Central Kimberley biogeographic zone in Western Australia, the northern part of the Northern Territory, Ambon Island, Buru Island of Maluku, and East Timor. It grows in woodland, vine forest, gallery forest and savannah forest, on clayey and peaty loam.
Common netbush · Narrow Leaf Paperbark · Bracelet honey myrtle · River teatree · 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 cajuputi 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.
