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Melaleuca howeana : ウィキペディア英語版 | Melaleuca howeana
''Melaleuca howeana'', commonly known as tea tree, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the Lord Howe island group, off the east coast of Australia. It is common in exposed areas, on cliffs and ridges, occasionally forming pure stands. Its closest mainland relative is ''Melaleuca ericifolia''. ==Description== ''Melaleuca howeana'' is a dense shrub growing to tall with flaky bark. Its young branchlets have fine, soft, silky hairs but become glabrous with age. Its leaves are arranged alternately, sometimes in whorls of three, each leaf long, wide, linear to narrow elliptic in shape with a blunt tip.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/online-resources/flora/stddisplay.xsql?pnid=52720 )〕 The flowers are white, arranged in spikes at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering. Each spike is up to wide and contains between 6 and 18 individual flowers. The petals are long and fall off as the flower ages. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flower with 6 to 12 stamens per bundle. Flowering occurs from mid-September to December and is followed by fruits which are woody, cup-shaped capsules long.〔〔〔
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