Melaleuca armillaris

Bracelet Honeymyrtle

or Giant Honeymyrtle

 

Family:            Myrtaceae

Plant:              A tall dense shrub or small tree up to 5m high with dark grey corky bark.

Flowers:         Fluffy creamy-yellow 3-7cm long with numerous stamens. The flowers are borne in dense cylindrical spikes low on the branchlets.

Flowering:      September-November.

Fruit:               Cylindrical capsule, 3-5mm diameter, crowded in clusters surrounding stems.

Leaves:          Soft dark-green, linear up to 2.5cm long and 1mm wide with a down-curved tip and oil dots (obscure). They are crowded and alternate.

Habitat:           In coastal scrub on sandy soil in damp places in heathland and on exposed sites on headlands where windswept stunted bushes may be found.

Features:       Fluffy creamy-yellow spike of flowers. Woody capsules in clusters on stems. Soft linear leaves.

Name:

Melaleuca       From Greek melas = black and leucos = white (referring to its black wood and white branches)

armillaris        From the Latin = circled with bracelet or collar (referring to its leaves)

Search Criteria

 

Type

Shrub, Tree

Flowers

Form

Cylindrical, Cluster

 

Colour(s)

Cream, Yellow

 

Petal/Sepal No.

-

 

Flowering Month

9, 10, 11

Fruit

Type       

Capsule

 

Colour

Brown

 

Other Features

Woody, Hard

Leaves

Arrangement

Alternate, Crowded

 

Type       

Simple

 

Shape

Linear, Needle-like

 

Length    

Short

 

Margins  

Entire

 

Attachment

Unstalked

 

Other Features

Soft, Aromatic, Oil

 

 

dots/Glands

Bark

Scaly/Corky

Habitat

Heathland, Beach strand