Scientific Name: Melaleuca styphelioides Sm.

Caption: Melaleuca styphelioides 061213-0857

Photographer: Tony Rodd

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Notes: Appin, New South Wales.  One of the 'paperbark' Melaleucas, this species can make a tree up to 15 m tall, with shapely conical crown and leaves with slightly prickly points. Not as floriferous as some of the other paperbarks, hardly worth growing for its flowers. A common understorey tree in coastal swamp forest that is only occasionally

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