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Woolly Tea Tree in Plant of the Week
FromReal World Gardener-Horticulture, Gardening, Learning to Grow
Woolly Tea Tree in Plant of the Week
FromReal World Gardener-Horticulture, Gardening, Learning to Grow
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Length:
6 minutes
Released:
Aug 30, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Scientific name: Leptospermum lanigerum
Common Name: Woolly tea tree
Family: Myrtaceae
Etymology: leptos, meaning slender, and sperma, meaning seed.
lanigerum, is named using the Latin word for wool-bearing, describing the silky hairy leaves and hairy buds, shoots and young capsules.
Height: 3m by 3m wide
Location: any soil in sun and will tolerate heavy shade. Frost hardy to -7C
Description: Dense shrub to small erect tree with persistent fibrous bark on larger stems, smaller stems shedding in stringy strips.
Not all tea trees have green leaves, and this one has pewter grey or silver tiny leaves with typical 5 petalled tea tree flowers.
May be limbed into a small tree. Light summer water though very drought adapted. Excellent background shrub or screen or large informal hedge.
Takes well to pruning as the leaves are tiny and the more you prune the bush will become more dense.
Listen to the podcast to find out more
I'm talking with Adrian O’Malley, native plant expert and officianado
Common Name: Woolly tea tree
Family: Myrtaceae
Etymology: leptos, meaning slender, and sperma, meaning seed.
lanigerum, is named using the Latin word for wool-bearing, describing the silky hairy leaves and hairy buds, shoots and young capsules.
Height: 3m by 3m wide
Location: any soil in sun and will tolerate heavy shade. Frost hardy to -7C
Description: Dense shrub to small erect tree with persistent fibrous bark on larger stems, smaller stems shedding in stringy strips.
Not all tea trees have green leaves, and this one has pewter grey or silver tiny leaves with typical 5 petalled tea tree flowers.
May be limbed into a small tree. Light summer water though very drought adapted. Excellent background shrub or screen or large informal hedge.
Takes well to pruning as the leaves are tiny and the more you prune the bush will become more dense.
Listen to the podcast to find out more
I'm talking with Adrian O’Malley, native plant expert and officianado
Released:
Aug 30, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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