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Melaleuca thymifolia : ウィキペディア英語版 | Melaleuca thymifolia
''Melaleuca thymifolia'', commonly known as thyme honey-myrtle, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is native to eastern Australia. It is often noticed in spring, with its attractive, purple flowers and is one of the most commonly cultivated melaleucas. A fragrant shrub, it usually grows to about tall, has corky bark and slender, wiry stems. ==Description== ''Melaleuca thymifolia'' is a low, spreading shrub which grows to a height of about with grey, corky bark, glabrous foliage and arching branches. Its leaves are arranged in alternating pairs (decussate) so that they make four rows of leaves along the stem. The leaves are long, wide, flat, elliptic in shape with a tapered end and often have their upper surface almost parallel to the stem. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melaleuca~thymifolia )〕 The flowers are a shade between pink and deep purple and are arranged in heads, sometimes at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering, and sometimes on the sides of the branches. The heads contain 2 to 10 individual flowers and are up to in diameter. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flower, each bundle containing 30 to 60 curved stamens. Flowering occurs over a long period, mostly in spring but also at other times of the year. Flowering is followed by fruits which are woody cup-shaped capsules, long and wide. The fruit have five persistent teeth around the rim.〔〔〔
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