Melaleuca quinquenrvia

Melaleuca quinquenrvia

Common name : Cajeput-tree,Paper-bark tree 白千層

General description

Leaf

Size 5 to 12 x 1 to 3 cm

Leaf stalk: 1 to 1.5 cm

Simple, alternate, narrowly elliptical

Surfaces smooth and hairless, leaves

Often curved

　　

Flower

Flower period Spring

Flower stalk length 1 to 1.5 cm

Spikes 7 to 15 cm

Colour white

Sex bisexual

Flowers are regular, fragrant. Calyx tubular, opening in four or five short sepals.
Corolla attached at the top of the calyx tube, of five small spreading petals, stamens numerous, white, conspicuous, the filaments joined in five bundles opposite the petals.

Ovary inferior, three to four-celled with many ovules in each cell and a single slender style. The fusion of stamen filaments into bundles distinguishes Melaleuca from the similar flower of Callistemon where the stamens are all free

Fruit

Size 0.3 cm across

Woody capsule, more or less hemispherical, opening at the top, long persistent on the tree

Trunk

Additional information

Height 25m

pH value of soil 6

Remarks hardy evergreen tree

　

Size	5 to 12 x 1 to 3 cm
Leaf stalk:	1 to 1.5 cm
Simple, alternate, narrowly elliptical Surfaces smooth and hairless, leaves Often curved

Flower period	Spring
Flower stalk length	1 to 1.5 cm
Spikes	7 to 15 cm
Colour	white
Sex	bisexual
Flowers are regular, fragrant. Calyx tubular, opening in four or five short sepals. Corolla attached at the top of the calyx tube, of five small spreading petals, stamens numerous, white, conspicuous, the filaments joined in five bundles opposite the petals. Ovary inferior, three to four-celled with many ovules in each cell and a single slender style. The fusion of stamen filaments into bundles distinguishes Melaleuca from the similar flower of Callistemon where the stamens are all free

Size	0.3 cm across
Woody capsule, more or less hemispherical, opening at the top, long persistent on the tree