Melaleuca quinquenervia
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Melaleuca quinquenervia, commonly known as the broad-leaved paperbark or paper bark tea tree in Australia, niaouli in New Caledonia and punk tree in the United States, is a small- to medium-sized tree
Melaleuca quinquenervia flowers
Habit near Woolgoolga
Melaleuca quinquenervia in Australia
Melaleuca quinquenervia distribution in Florida
Melaleuca
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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
Melaleuca quinquenervia
…and it was published in Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum. In 1958, Stanley Thatcher Blake of the Queensland Herbarium transferred the species to Melaleuca. The specific epithet (quinquenervia) is from the Latin quinque meaning "five" and nervus, "vein", referring to the leaves usually having five veins…
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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