Melaleuca micromera

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Rare in the wild, even less often seen in cultivation, this native shrub deserves to be better known and grown.

It's frost hardy and drought hardy, surviving Canberra winters and prolonged droughts. It needs little maintenance other than perhaps a light yearly trim.

It will grow under gum trees, and thread itself obligingly around taller shrubs or arch over groundcovers. It grows in clay or sandy gravel. The tiny fluffy pale yellow wattle-like flowers open from late winter through into spring.

It's related to paperbarks and honey myrtles, but its leaves have adapted to something more like scales, giving it the look of a conifer from a distance.

images : KEvin Thiele cropped to size.

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Description

Melaleuca micromera - wattle honey myrtle

APPEARANCE : Hardy open native shrub with slender bushy branches of extremely tiny grey-green foliage, the leaves flattened against the stems ('micromera' means small parts). Pale yellow pompom flowers in early spring.
ORIGIN : Native to south-west WA in the Stirling Ranges
USE FOR : Native gardens, wild gardens, coastal gardens, mixed borders, in large pots, around rocks or larger shrubs.
CLIMATE : Frost hardy, drought hardy (it may lose leaves but these will regrow after watering), grows on the east coast in NSW. Test its humidity tolerance yourself further north!
PLANTING : Grows in the wild in clay, gravel and sandy soils.
CARE : Mulch and water well. Lightly prune once a year after flowering if required to encourage bushiness or shape the plant.
HEIGHT & WIDTH : 2 - 4 m H x 2 - 3 m W. Variable in size according to location.
YOUR PLANTS : These are tubestock plants, healthy young plants with new roots that will establish quickly in your garden. The pot size is 80mm high and 42 mm wide.
You can see an example in the image gallery.
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