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Tea Tree - Melaleuca alternifolia

Type: T/Perennial MIN7'

Melaleuca alternifolia or Tea Tree is most notable for its essential oil which reputed to be both anti-fungal and antibiotic, while safely usable for topical applications. This is produced on a commercial scale, and marketed as Tea Tree Oil.

As a plant, the Tea Tree is native to Australia, where it thrives in the areas along streams and in swampy marshlands.

As the climate in the UK is that much cooler than Australia, Tea Tree would need to be treated as a tender plant and brought indoors over the winter months. The slender trunk holds elegant branches with green linear leaves that are long and narrow. Tea tree will flower with white blooms that go on to produce cup-shaped fruit, but it is unlikely to flower in a cooler climate.