Plant Details

Scientific Name: Leptospermum microcarpum
  • Pronunciation: lep-toe-SPERM-um mike-row-CARP-um
  • Type: Shrub
  • Family: MYRTACEAE
  • Size: to 3 metres
  • Flowers: white spring 10 mm
  • Fruit: Small capsules shed before next flowering. 4 mm
  • Vegetation Type: Montane
  • Species List: Emu Mt., Upper Mt. Tinbeerwah,

Identification Notes

Flower: solitary or in pairs in axils. 

Fruit: Very tiny woody, usually shed before next flowering 

Bark: hard and Fibrous.

Leaves: incurved, Pungent pointed. 

Fruiting Pedicel: usually shorter than Hypanthium

Sumit of ovaries Pubescent

Hypanthium: silky hairy all over.

  • Leptospermum microcarpum
  • Leptospermum microcarpum
  • Leptospermum microcarpum
  • Leptospermum microcarpum
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