Melaleuca alternifolia

The Australian tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) is a species of the genus Myrtenheiden (Melaleuca) in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae). Some species of this genus, but also from the genus Baeckea, Leptospermum and Kunzea be called tea tree. From the tea tree species, the tea tree oil obtained by distillation.

The Australian tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) is an evergreen shrub or small tree, height up to 7 (to 10) meters achieved. He has a white, paper-like bark. The bark of young branches and inflorescences are covered with hair silky, and the bark of older branches are bare. The leaves are arranged in whorls on opposite sides to lanceolate, straight to curved sickle-shaped, about 1 to 3.5 cm long and 1 mm wide. The leaf stalk is only about 1 mm long.

The flowered, year-old, 3-5 cm long inflorescences work through the many white stamens of flowers such as dense whitish fuzz. The somewhat further, hermaphroditic flowers are five parts. Five small sepals are fused with a cup Roehrig tube is 3-4 mm long with broad, short calyx lobes. The free, white petals are 2-3 mm long. Depending 30-60 white stamens stand together in bundles of five, they are about 2 cm long and the short anthers are claw. The thick pen has a length of about 3-4 mm and ends in a kopfigen scar. The flowering season is spring.

The cylindrical, hard capsule fruit has a diameter of 2-4 mm.


Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australischer_Teebaum
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