Chenile Honey Myrtle
(Melaleuca huegelii)

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Melaleuca armillaris

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