Mazhar Botanic Garden

Melaleuca gibbosa Labill.

Slender honey-myrtle

Sample code: EGY-MBG-000886
Common name: Slender honey-myrtle
English name: Small-leaved honey-murtle
Native: Southern Australia
Country: Australia

Evergreen medium-sized shrub, about 2 m tall leaves sessile, opposite pairs along the stem, egg-shaped 2-7 mm long and 2-4 mm wide flowers mauve, in dense, cylindrical spikes fruit woody capsules

Ornamental shrub.

Myrtoleucodendron gibbosum (Labill) Kuntze

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Texture: Clay Loam Rocky  Sandy
Fertility: High
Drainage: Well drained
Topography: Coastal area
Salinity: Low
Water Sources: Moderate Water
Climates: Mediterranean Subtropics Temperate
Lights: Semi shade Sun Exposure
Propagation: Seeds - semi-hard wood cuttings
Flowering time: Spring
Zone: 9 : 11
pH range: 5.0- 7.5
Status: Rare
Life span: Perennial
Habits: Evergreen Shrub
Sample Type: Introduced - cultivated
Collecting Sources: Botanical garden
Plant Uses: Ornamental
Plant Populations density: Cultivated
Vegetation types: Sub tropical
pH: Acid Alkaline Neutral

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