Paper bark tea tree
Melaleuca fluviatilis, Fam. Myrtaceae
Shrub or small tree to 30m with weeping branchlets and foliage and layered papery bark.
| Weed Category: | |
| Weed: | No |
| Form or habit: | Shrub, Small tree, Med tree |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Leaf: | Simple, alternate, entire, narrowly to very narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, 4.5-18 x 0.5-1.9cm, usually with scattered hairs and five to seven prominent parallel veins. |
| Flower conspicuous: | Conspicuous |
| Flower colour: |
White, Yellow, Cream, Green |
| Flower description: | Spikes of yellowish green, cream, white or yellowish flowers, up to 4cm wide. Late autumn to winter. |
| Fruit conspicuous: | Conspicuous |
| Fruit colour: |
Brown |
| Fruit: | |
| Fruit description: | Brown, woody, cup shaped capsules, 2.5-4 x 3.2-6mm. |
| Habitat: | Gallery (riverine or riparian) forest. |
| Distribution | Queensland, Northern Territory. |
| Food source for: | Nectar eaten by the little and silver crowned friarbirds, the banded, bar-breasted blue-faced, brown, brown backed, dusky, grey fronted, red headed, rufous throated, singing, white throated honeyeaters and the yellow throated miner. Flowers and buds eaten by the golden shouldered and red winged parrots. |
| Toxicity: | No toxicity known |
| Origin: | Australia. |
| Notes: | Grow from seed. |
| Information sources: | Melzer R. & Plumb J. (2007) Plants of Capricornia. |
