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Melaleuca pustulata, yellow or warty paperbark, is a dense, uncommon shrub from eastern Tasmania that grows to about 5 m with fragrant yellow-white flowers in spring. It suits sunny, well-drained sites and is useful for hedges and windbreaks.
Melaleuca pustulata, commonly known as yellow paperbark, warty paperbark or Cranbrook paperbark is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to Tasmania in Australia. It is an uncommon shrub, one of only two melaleucas that are endemic to that state and one of only eight found naturally occurring there. It has thick, pimply leaves, hairy new growth and large numbers of heads of pale yellow, fragrant flowers in spring or early summer.
Melaleuca pustulata is a useful plant for hedges and windbreaks.
This melaleuca occurs near the east coast of Tasmania usually in dry heath, often on shallow soils derived from dolerite.
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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.
