Broad-leaved paperbark
Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T.Blake
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 12 m
- wide
- 7.5 m
Myrtaceae
Also called Paperbark, Paper Bark Tea Tree, Fivevein Paperbark, Cajeput, Paperbark Tree
Formerly Melaleuca maidenii, Melaleuca smithii, Metrosideros quinquenervia
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- New Guinea, New Caledonia, E. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 8.0 m to 15 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 5.0 m to 10 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, creamRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Spanish
- Corcho falso
- French
- Niaouli
- Chinese (China)
- 五脉白千层
- Russian
- Мелалеука пятижилковая
- Chinese
- 闊葉白千層, 五脉白千层
- Finnish
- mesikaarnamyrtti
- Slovak
- melaleuka päťžilová
- Portuguese
- melaleuca
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Melaleuca quinquenervia (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.