Leptospermum scoparium

Shrub or tree, procumbent or erect, to c. 5 m high; bark on smaller stems smooth, shedding in stringy strips. Young stems with a narrow to broad flange near base of petiole. Leaves narrowly elliptic to almost circular (broadest near the middle and tapering above and below), 7–22 mm long, 2–7 mm wide, glabrous; apex acuminate or subulate, flat to incurved, pungent; margins flat to incurved, minutely denticulate. Flowers 9–14 mm diam.; hypanthium 2.5–3.5 mm long, glabrous; pedicel to 1 mm long; sepals triangular, c. 2 mm long, glabrous on outer surface, deciduous; petals 3–6 mm long, white; ovary 5-locular, apex glabrous. Fruit persistent, broadly hemispherical, 6–10 mm diam., surface ultimately shedding in papery flakes, becoming rough, valves woody; seeds 2–3.5 mm long, with a linear-striate surface pattern. Flowers mainly Sep.–Mar.