Broom teatree
Leptospermum scoparium J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5.0 m
- wide
- 3.0 m
Myrtaceae
Also called Mānuka, Tea tree
Formerly Leptospermum bullatum, Leptospermum humifusum, Leptospermum multiflorum, Leptospermum nichollsii, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Australia, New Zealand, Chatham Is.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 5.0 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 2–5 m; Plants for a Future 5–5 m
- Spread
- 3.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -10 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- French
- Manuka
- Māori
- Mānuka
- Welsh
- llwyn te
- Finnish
- Ruusumyrtti
- Macedonian
- Манука
- Chinese
- 松红梅, 澳洲茶
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 4.0
- 3D model: Leptospermum scoparium (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.