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Melaleuca squarrosa, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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#1409 most planted

Melaleuca squarrosa

Scented paperbark

47
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
1
city
3.8 in
median trunk (10 cm, 47 measured)

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Melaleuca squarrosa, also known as scented paperbark, is a shrub or small tree native to southeastern Australia. It features dense foliage, arching branches, and produces fragrant yellow to white flowers in spring and early summer.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Melbourne · Australia
    47—3.8 in

No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.

Traits

Blooms
Mar, Apr, May, Jun

Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.8 in, mean 3.8 in, 90th percentile 5.6 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Southeast Australia temperate forests

Other Melaleuca in the catalogue

15 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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