Leptospermum arachnoides

Stiff Tea Tree or Spidery Tea Tree

Family:            Myrtaceae

Plant:              A straggling slender shrub up to 1m high with a rough, peeling, flaky bark.

Flowers:         Solitary 8-12mm diameter and hairy on outside of floral tube with 5 round spreading white petals and numerous stamens surrounding a central disc.

Flowering:      November-January.

Fruits:             Woody capsule, 5-8mm diameter with 4-5 horned seed chambers. They are hairy when young.

Leaves:          Narrow lanceolate, 1-2cm long and 1-3mm wide, incurved, twisted and with a sharp tip.

Habitat:           Common usually found in damp, rocky places in heathland.

Features:       Rigid sharp leaves. White flower with many stamens around a central disc. Flowers hairy on outside. Flaky bark.

Name:            

Leptospermum        

                        From Greek lepto = slender and spermum = seed (referring to its seed capsule)

arachnoides   From Latin = spider (referring to its general appearance)

Search Criteria

 

Type

Shrub

Flowers

Form

Regular, Single

 

Colour(s)

White

 

Petal/Sepal No.

5

 

Flowering Month

1, 11, 12

Fruit

Type       

Capsule

 

Colour

Brown, Grey

 

Other Features

Woody, Hairy

Leaves

Arrangement

Alternate

 

Type       

Simple

 

Shape

Oval

 

Length    

Short

 

Margins  

Entire      

 

Attachment

Unstalked

 

Other Features

Sharp-tip, Hairy      

Bark

Papery/Flaky

Habitat

Heathland