Common Name

Green Tea-tree, Mallee Tea-tree

Family

Myrtaceae

Notes

Shrub to 2m tall. Leaves aromatic when crushed, alternating up the stems. Leaves 0.8-2cm long, 3-5mm wide, flat, hairless, hairy when young, with a straight or curved point. Flowers white, with 5 petals, 1-2 together on short stalks arising from at the bases of the leaves.

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 513

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