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Melaleuca, Melaleuca quinquenervia, is a fast-growing and hardy tree with a slender crown and a layered, peeling paper-like white bark somewhat resembling that of a birch tree. Branches occur at irreglar intervals off of the main trunk.Melaleuca leaves are 10-15 cm long, evergreen, lanceolate, simple and short-stalked, parallel-veined, alternate in arrangement, and aromatic when crushed. The flowers are small and white, with multiple stamens, arranged in botllebrush-shaped clusters at the branch tips. The fruits are small, round woody capsules containing 200-300 seeds (Langeland and Burks 1998, FLEPPC 1999, IFAS

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Source: Indian River Lagoon Species Inventory

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