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Melaleuca quinquenervia, commonly known as the broad-leaved paperbark, paper bark tea tree, punk tree or niaouli, is a small- to medium-sized tree of the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It grows as a spreading tree up to 20 m (70 ft) tall, with its trunk covered by a white, beige and grey thick papery bark.
Have you been eyeing the Melaleuca Quinquenervia also known as “Paperbark” to spruce up your garden? Well, this guide tells you everything that you need to know to plant, grow and care for the Australian native Melaleuca tree.
Species Overview. Native to: Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, New Caledonia. Melaleuca, aka, punk or paperbark tree, was first introduced to Florida around 1886 as an ornamental, shade tree, and windbreak. There were over a dozen independent introductions between the 1880s and the 1950s.
Melaleuca quinquevervia, commonly known as melaleuca, cajeput tree, punk tree, paper bark tea tree or white bottlebrush tree, is primarily native to Australia where it is typically found in swamps and wet plains in eastern coastal areas from Sidney north to New Guinea.
Melaleuca quinquernervia is a medium to tall tree, growing to 15 metres tall with a canopy spread to 5 metres. The bark is papery and peels off in strips. It naturally grows as far south as Botany Bay in NSW, extending north, mostly close to the coast, almost continuously into Queensland.
Ecology and management of Melaleuca quinquenervia, an invader of wetlands in Florida, U.S.A. Wetlands Ecology and Management 5:165–178. Species Profile: Melaleuca. Degrades wetlands in several ways, including altering fire regimes, water table depth, vertical structure of plant communities.
Melaleuca (Melaleuca quinquenervia), also known as cajeput-tree, punktree, paperbark-tree, five-veined paperbark, or bottlebrush, is an evergreen tree from Australia brought to this country as an ornamental because of its showy "bottlebrush" flowers (3,11,12). It has been planted widely in tropical and subtropical regions.
Identification: Melaleuca quinquenervia is a large, wetland tree species with thick, white, peeling bark that appears “paper-like”, accounting for one of the species’ common names “paperbark tree” (Meskimen 1962; Turner et al 1997).
Melaleuca quinquenervia (melaleuca) is an invasive, exotic tree native to Australia that has proliferated in Florida for approximately 100 years and now occupies more than 400,000 acres of wetland, litoral and, to a lesser degree, agricultural, systems in the state.
Melaleuca quinquenervia is probably the most familiar of the “paperbarks” in eastern Australia. It is a very common species along coastal streams and swamps and is widely cultivated. It is a small to medium-sized tree which can reach 25 metres but is usually up to 12 metres in cultivation.