Weeping Paperbark
ಕಾಜಪುಟೆ ಮರபேப்பர் மரம்മെലാലൂക ലൂകഡെൻട്ര
Melaleuca leucadendra (L.) L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 m
- wide
- 20 m
Myrtaceae
Formerly Kajuputi leucadendron, Leptospermum leucodendron, Meladendron leucocladum, Melaleuca amboinensis, and 5 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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Maluku to N. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 30 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 20 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- White, cream, greenRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 白千層
- Chinese
- 长叶白千层
- Tamil
- பேப்பர் மரம்
- Kannada
- ಕಾಜಪುಟೆ ಮರ
- Bangla
- ক্যাজুপুট
- Malayalam
- മെലാലൂക ലൂകഡെൻട്ര
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- 3D model: Melaleuca leucadendra (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.