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Melaleuca ferruginea is a tree in the myrtle family, native to coastal areas of Australia's Northern Territory, where it often grows on the edges of billabongs and watercourses that flood regularly. It is a large tree and is rarely grown as a garden or houseplant, so care is mainly relevant to planting it outdoors in warm, humid, seasonally wet conditions.
Melaleuca ferruginea is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to areas near the coast of the Northern Territory in Australia. It grows to tree size, its new bark is reddish-brown and papery, and its flowers are arranged in spikes new the ends of its branches.
Melaleuca ferruginea occurs near the coast of the Top End of the Northern Territory usually in places that are regularly flooded such as the margins of billabongs and watercourses.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melaleuca ferruginea 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.
