Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use
Identification & Control of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Leptospermum continentale synonym: Leptospermum juniperinum |
| Common Name: | Prickly Tea-tree |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Medium Shrub (1 to 2 m), Tall Shrub (2 to 6 m), Bee Attracting, Bird Attracting, Butterfly Attracting, Insect Attracting |
| Growing Conditions: | Full Sun, Partial Shade
Sandy, Clay, Moist, Wet, Well Drained |
| Size (HxW): | 1.2 m x 1.2 |
| Foliage: | Rigid prickly leaves, narrowly egg-shaped, broadest at base, concave, tiny teeth along the margins, 5-13 mm x 1-3.5 mm |
| Flowers: | White flowers massed along stems, petals and sepals white, calyx and capsule hairless, capsules flaky with age, becoming rough, October-December |
| General Comments: | Dense or straggling shrub. Narrow upright prickly shrub with smooth bark on smaller stems, shedding in stringy strips. Birds like the insects it attracts. Nectar for butterflies. An adaptable plant which can be very narrow, or more bushy. Pruning beneficial. Excellent habitat plant or for directing pedestrian traffic. Very floriferous. This plant may be a variation of "Leptospermum scoparium". |
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| Similar Plant(s): | Leptospermum scoparium |
