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Melaleuca lazaridis

Melaleuca lazaridis is a shrub to about 4 m with red flower spikes tipped with yellow, native only to Blackdown Tableland National Park in Queensland. Little is documented about cultivation, so treat care advice as general guidance for related bottlebrush-type melaleucas.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top of the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gravelly soil, suited to its sandstone habitat.
Temperature
15–30 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Melaleuca lazaridis is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the Blackdown Tableland National Park in Queensland. (Some Australian state herbaria use the name Callistemon lazaridis). It is a shrub with dark green leaves and red flowers spikes tipped with yellow.

Where it grows

This melaleuca only occurs in the Blackdown Tableland National Park, where it grows in a range of habitats but often near sandstone in open forest and along creeks.

Other Callistemon plants

Melaleuca comboynensis · Callistemon kenmorrisonii · Melaleuca linearifolia · Melaleuca pearsonii · Melaleuca pityoides · Melaleuca orophila · Bottlebrush · Prickly Bottlebrush · Melaleuca buseana · Melaleuca flammea · Melaleuca flavovirens · Melaleuca formosa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melaleuca lazaridis 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.

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