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Silver cadjeput
Melaleuca argentea
About
Melaleuca argentea, commonly known as the silver cadjeput, silver-leaved paperbark, silver cajuput, or mardderr in the Kunwinjku language, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a common tree along river banks or around swamps in the tropics. It has papery bark and weeping foliage and has been the subject of important scientific research.
- Family
- Myrtaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Melaleuca argentea
- Slug
- melaleuca-argentea
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Genus
- Melaleuca
- Species
- argentea
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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