Botanical Name: Melaleuca nesophila
Common Name: Pink melaleuca
Type of Plant: dicot: shrub/tree
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape an irregular, single or multi-trunked plant; larger branches are covered with thick white spongy bark; has loose rounded canopy in youth which becomes more open and irregular with age
Height 10'-20' (30')
Spread 2/3-equal
Growth Rate mod-rapid
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full or partial sun
Soil tolerates most, including alkaline and rocky soils
Hardiness some frost (zones 9, 13, 16, 17, 20-24); best towards coast
 
Morphology:
Leaves pinnate, alternate-whorled; obovate-oblong; gray-green, 1/2 -1" long, leathery; apex often mucronate
Flowers rose-pink, round, in 1" terminal heads, staminate flowers fall or intermittent during year
Fruit a capsule: small (1/4"), woody, top-shaped
 
Propagation:
seed
 
Usage:
a beautiful small accent tree for its interesting branching form and attractive flowers; often used as windscreen or large informal hedge; good on slopes for erosion control
 
Landscape Care:
Watering an occasional deep soak; plant is drought-tolerant after established
Fertilizing as needed; little required after established
Pruning as a tree, head high and thin out; best if not sheared
Pests/Diseases relatively free
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: Australia
Family: Myrtaceae

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