Currently Accepted Name: | Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S. T. Blake |
Locality: | USA. California. Los Angeles Co.: D-3-NW. |
Description: | Broad-elliptic tree, ca. 20 ft. high and 12 ft. across; narrow-deliquescent, branches upswept, branchlets nodding-pendulous, densely headed to ground; trunk spongy, white-tan, brown-buff beneath; leaves grayish-green, stiff, vertical; inflors profuse, mostly beyond anthesis, irregularly stellate, dense; stamens white, tanged, fading tan; some old fruit. |
Notes: | CULTIVATED. Source: UCLA Bot. Gard., Los Angeles; LASCA Ac. Number 49-S-451. |