Heathcote National Park, southern outskirts of Sydney, New South Wales. Track from Waterfall Station to Kingfisher Pool.Trunk almost 30 cm diameter - see also adjacent shots. The foliage does not belong to this trunk, but to a multi-stemmed shrub of Lomatia myricoides.
Leptospermum rupestre (mountain teatree) flowering on boulder scree slope on the Wild Dog Tier, Central Plateau Conservation Area, Tasmania.Olearia pinifolia in the mid-ground.
Description: Leaves aromatic when crushed - so called "Tea-tree", but it is NOT the plant from which tea tree oil is obtained, The common name tea-tree derives from the practice of early settlers of soaking the leaves of several species in boiling water to make a tea substitute. Tea-tree oil extraction comes from Melaleuca alternifolia. Date: 24 August 2008, 12:35. Source: Leptospermum sp.. Author: Tatiana Gerus from Brisbane, Australia.