Flaky-Barked Tea-Tree is a shrub or small tree, 2-5
m tall, bark in thin flaking layers, younger stems velvety. Leaves are
broad-obovate to very narrow-elliptic and falcate, 1-2 cm long, 1-6 mm
wide, silky, smooth, tip rounded to long-pointed, point blunt. Base is
tapering or rounded, shortly stalked. Flowers are borne solitary or 2
together, 0.7-15 mm diameter, white. Hypanthium is 3 or more mm long
velvety. Sepals are 1.5-2.5 mm long, pubescent. Petals 5-7 mm long.
Stamens are 1.5-2 mm long. Ovary is 4- or 5-locular. Fruit is 3-6 mm in
diameter, pubescentvelvety, valves not protruding. Flaky-Barked
Tea-Tree is native to Australia, cultivated in India.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Ooty, Tamil Nadu.
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