Melaleuca is a genus of nearly 300 species of plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, commonly known as paperbarks, honey-myrtles, bottlebrushes or tea-trees. They range in size from small shrubs that
M. quinquenervia bark showing the papery exfoliation from which the common name "paperbark" derives
Paperbark trees on the East Alligator River in the Northern Territory
M. leucadendra in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Eremaea is a genus of woody shrubs and small trees in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. Little study of the genus as a whole had been undertaken until Roger H