
Melaleuca halmaturorum
South Australian swamp paperbark · also Kangaroo honey-myrtle, Salt paper-bark
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Melaleuca halmaturorum is a plant in the myrtle family, native to Western Australia, South Australia, and Victoria. It is often a tree with an unusual, crooked form, sometimes looking like an enlarged example of bonsai. It is commonly known as "salt paper-bark" suggesting tolerance to saline conditions.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 550.04%—3.8 in
No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.
Traits
- Tolerates
- salt
Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.8 in, mean 4.5 in, 90th percentile 5.6 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Other Melaleuca in the catalogue
15 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.