This is an attractive landscape shrub for southern regions with green pendulous branchlets and graceful form up to 4m high and 2m wide. It produces flowers in summer on its creamy long spikes. Tolerant of both drought and waterlogging it is also salt tolerant. Melaluecas are generally known as paperbarks for their flaking papery bark.
- Type
- Native
- Maintenance
- Low
- Water use
- Minimal
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Container
- Zero
- Size
- Medium Trees & shrubs 3 - 7 metres
- Root size
- 4 metres
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Zones
- Semi-arid with winter rain, Moist temperate with warm summers, Winter rains with dry summers
- Soils
- Sandy, Loam, Clay
- Tolerances
- Frost, Wind, Salt
- Regions
- Central Highlands Garden
- Shade levels
- Full sun, Sun/shade
- Flowering seasons
- Spring, Summer
- Colours
- Green, White, Pink