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Melaleuca calyptroides
About
Melaleuca calyptroides is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is similar to a number of other Western Australian melaleucas such as M. hollidayi with its almost cylindrical leaves, purple pom-pom flower heads and low growth habit but it has longer, wartier leaves and fewer flowers in the inflorescences.
- Family
- Myrtaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Melaleuca calyptroides
- Slug
- melaleuca-calyptroides
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Genus
- Melaleuca
- Species
- calyptroides
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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