MyrtaceaeSubfamily Heteropyxideae
W/C = Wild Collected |
Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T.Blake
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- Common Name: Niaouli
- Family: Myrtaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: New South Wales, Queensland, New Calendonia, Papau New Guinea
- Habitat: an invasive species in southern US.
- Description: Resiniferous evergreen tree to 30 m tall, 1 m diameter, with whitish papery bark, often exfoliating. Leaves alternate, dull green, narrowly lanceolate, oblanceolate, or lance-elliptic, 5-20 cm long, 5-35 mm wide, apically and basally acute, entire, pli-nerved, aromatic, the petiole 2-4 mm long. Flowers ramiflorous, between or below groups of leaves in "bottlebrush spikes" 4-15 cm long, often producing apical foliaceous shoots following flowering. Calyx with 5 rounded lobes <2 mm long, and 5 somewhat longer whitish petals, ca 30 filiform stamens and inferior 2-4 celled ovary with many ovules. Capsules sessile, crowded along the branches, with many minute narrow brown seeds <2 m long.
- Uses: The source of one of the tea tree oils called niaouli oil.
Restrictions:- Potentially Invasive Plant - Plants are not to leave Greenhouse!
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Accession Data:- Accession # 199000071
- Source: SCE/Florida
- Accession Date: 09-11-1990
- Bench: 1217 - AUS:Queensland B
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 11-02-2009
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: rosids
- Order: Myrtales
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- Family: Myrtaceae
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References:New Crop Homepage Personal Communication with F. Allen Dray Jr., USDA, ARS Invasive Plant Research Lab - January 10, 2001
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