Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Moorundie Conservation Park, SA

Seed cases and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Moorundie Conservation Park, SA

Common Name

Moonah; Black Tea-tree, Dry Land Tea tree, Moonah Honey-myrtle

Family

Myrtaceae

Notes

Shrub or tree to 10m tall.  Leaves aromatic when crushed, alternating up the stems, 0.5-1.5cm long, 1-3mm wide, flat, hairless, with straight or curved points.  Flowers white to cream, with 5 petals.  Flower cluster a bottle brush arranged in 10-20 groups of 3, initially at the ends of the stems, which then grow on.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 515

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melaleuca~lanceolata