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Melaleuca undulata

Melaleuca undulata
Photo: Kevin R. Thiele, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub, Perennial
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Melaleuca undulata, commonly known as hidden honey-myrtle is a shrub in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a spreading, moderately dense, perennial, woody shrub with creamy-white flowers in small clusters.

How to grow it

This is a hardy species suitable as a low, informal, prickly hedge. It will grow in most soils and aspects.

Where it grows

This melaleuca occurs from the Stirling Range – Broomehill district eastwards to the Israelite Bay district. It grows in mallee and heath, swampy areas, river beds and the edge of clay pans in sand, clay or lateritic gravel.

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 undulata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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