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Melaleuca pallescens

Melaleuca pallescens
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Melaleuca pallescens is a bushy shrub or small tree from southeast Queensland, growing to about 4 m, with small leaves and pink-to-white flowers in spring. It grows naturally in heavy clay soils near streams and wet areas.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then keep soil moist, tolerating periods of wet clay conditions.
Soil
Heavy clay or moist, well-drained loam.
Temperature
Subtropical; tolerates mild frosts, protect below about -3 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland
Climate
subtropical

About

Melaleuca pallescens is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the state of Queensland in Australia. It has hard, furrowed bark and very small leaves that have the lower part of their upper surface pressed against the branches of the plant.

Where it grows

Melaleuca pallescens occurs in the eastern half of Queensland growing in heavy clay soils, near streams and other wet areas.

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 pallescens 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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