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Kānuka or white tea-tree
Kunzea ericoides
About
Kunzea ericoides, commonly known as kānuka or white tea-tree, is a tree or shrub in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to New Zealand. It has white or pink flowers similar to those of Leptospermum and from its first formal description in 1832 until 1983 was known as Leptospermum ericoides. The flowers have five petals and up to 25 stamens which are mostly longer than the petals.
- Family
- Myrtaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Kunzea ericoides
- Slug
- kunzea-ericoides
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Genus
- Kunzea
- Species
- ericoides
- Wikidata QID
- Q311632
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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