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Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney. PlantNET (The NSW Plant Information Network System). Hornsby Shire Council, Fact sheet Melaleuca quinquenervia – Broad-leaved Paperbark. Willoughby City Council, blic/ecm/willoughby-city-library-website/1-bo-ra-ne_ya-goo-na_par-ry-boo-go_yesterday_today_tomorrow.pdfĭepartment of Environment and Science, Queensland (2013) Coastal and subcoastal floodplain tree swamp–Melaleuca spp. Bo-ra-ne Ya-goo-na Par-ry-boo-go: Yesterday Today Tomorrow: An Aboriginal History of Willoughby.

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Gardening Australia Series 21 Episode 02 Understanding plant uses, broadcast 13 February 2010 (Clarence Slockee, Presenter). Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) ĪBC. It has white or pale cream flowers and can grow to 20 metres tall and 100 years old.Īustralian Native Plants Society (Australia). Melaleuca quinquenervia – broad-leaved paper-bark – has longer, wider leaves, usually with five visible veins running the length of the leaf. It can grow to 20 metres tall and has dense foliage. The very spiky Melaleuca styphelioides – prickly-leaved paper-bark – has white or pale cream flowers and has short narrow spiky leaves. It also grows as a shrub or small tree to about 10 metres. Melaleuca linariifolia – snow in summer – also has pale cream flowers but longer leaves. It grows densely as a tall shrub or can grow as a tree to about nine metres tall. Melaleuca ericifolia – swamp paper-bark – has pale cream flowers and short narrow leaves. Melaleuca decora – white feather honey myrtle – grows to about seven metres tall and has white or pale cream flowers and narrow leaves, growing along the stem alternately.

Whilst they all have flaking papery bark and aromatic leaves, there are differences between the species. The fruit form as woody seed capsules clustered along the ‘flower stem’. Each ‘flower’ is actually several clusters of flowers, the visible part being the long fine soft stamens. Characteristics of the Melaleuca species are the layered papery bark on the trunks and flowers that look like bottle-brushes.