Prickly-leaved Tea Tree (Melaleuca styphelioides)
© Tony Rodd
Botanic Gardens. Melbourne I photographed this because it is one of the largest and finest cultivated specimens of the species I have ever seen. There are doubtless taller trees in the wild and I may even have done surveys among them, but they are usually crowded together in the coastal swamp forests that are its typical (but not its only) habitat. It's a common eastern Australian tree, but with a southern limit a good way north of Melbourne, near Nowra NSW.
Photo taken on 29 Nov 2010
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