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Melaleuca tamariscina

Melaleuca tamariscina
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Melaleuca tamariscina is a small tree or shrub from central Queensland, grown mainly for its weeping habit, papery bark and bottlebrush-like flowers. It is seldom cultivated, and it tolerates moist soil better than most melaleucas.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep soil evenly moist, especially when young, and avoid waterlogging except in its natural boggy habitat.
Soil
Moist, well-drained or gently wet loam or sandy soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
15–30 °C; tolerates brief frosts once established
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Melaleuca tamariscina, commonly known as bush-house paperbark or tamarix honey-myrtle is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to central Queensland in Australia. It grows to the height of a small tree with small, scale-like leaves that are pressed against the branches, and has a papery bark and a weeping habit.

Where it grows

Melaleuca tamariscina occurs on the Great Dividing Range in and between the Torrens Creek and Jericho districts. It often grows in boggy places and sometimes on sandstone ridges.

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 tamariscina 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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