slender honey-myrtle
Melaleuca gibbosa
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Description
medium sized, dense rounded shrub 2 metres high to 2 metres wide with attractive foliage of small sessile ovate to obovate leaves. Leaves are aromatic when crushed. In Spring and early Summer it bursts into small dainty mauve to pink flowers which fade to white.
Flowers occur in up to 10 pairs per spike and have numerous stamens. The flask-shaped fruits are woody and become embedded in the stem. Seeds are retained in fruiting capsules.
This plant is adaptable and easily grown in most soils in temperate areas of moderate to high rainfall. It is drought hardy, frost resistant and tolerates waterlogging.
