Melaleuca huegelii
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Melaleuca huegelii, Endl. Erect rigid shrub, 6-15 ft., nearly glabrous: lvs. spirally arranged, appresscd, overlapping, sessile, ovate, acute, ¼ in. or less long, striate with 3-7 nerves: fls. white (or buds pink), in dense spikes 1-5 in. long by about ¾in. wide, the rachis growing out before the buds open; stamens 4 or 5 lines long, the conspicuous claw ending in 7-11 filaments: frs. globose, with broad base partly embedded in the rachis, crowded into a cylindric spike. — Interesting chiefly because of its oddity.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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