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Wanted Melaleuca alternifolia seeds


EthnoGuy85

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I have 4 different narrow leaf tea trees growing in my yard, 2 of them look close to the pictures I can see on the net of Melaleuca alternifolia. 2 of the tree I have smell like lemon tea tree, the other 2 smell like just tea tree oil but one is sweeter smelling. I can take some photos if you want to ID them or I can just collect some seeds & send them over.

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I have 4 different narrow leaf tea trees growing in my yard, 2 of them look close to the pictures I can see on the net of Melaleuca alternifolia. 2 of the tree I have smell like lemon tea tree, the other 2 smell like just tea tree oil but one is sweeter smelling. I can take some photos if you want to ID them or I can just collect some seeds & send them over.

The lemon-scented ones are probably Leptospermum species not Melaleuca sp.They are potentially L. petersonii and quite different plants to M. alternifolia,

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The flowers are like bottle brush flowers but white on the bushes i have. I did a quick look at Leptospermum flowers & they look very different. So I am pretty sure they are Melaleuca. The flowers are just finishing on 2 of them so I will try and get the seeds.

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The flowers are like bottle brush flowers but white on the bushes i have. I did a quick look at Leptospermum flowers & they look very different. So I am pretty sure they are Melaleuca. The flowers are just finishing on 2 of them so I will try and get the seeds.

Possibly a Kunzea species??

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Kunzea

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I know it awesome to get them wild harvested or from someones collection, but you can buy seeds on ebay and they ship to the states.

I'm going to buy a pack because i only have L. petersonii which I love! smells so good and make a nice cup of tea.

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I will take some photo's today, but they will be hard to ID I think because many of the paper barks aren't grow in nurseries & there is tons of them. A broader leaf one is Melaleuca quinquenervia (common native & serious weed in Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Texas), the lemon smelling ones must be a local native also because I have noticed them in many other gardens around so I think the local council nursery should have them.

Yeah so I am not sure it is a good idea to send a potential/established noxious weed overseas.

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