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Tea tree, burgundy-red cultivar 'Wiri Donna' cultivar, Auckland Botanic Gardens. Mānuka (Māori pronunciation:, Leptospermum scoparium), also known as mānuka myrtle, [1] New Zealand teatree, [1] broom tea-tree, [2] or just tea tree, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, native to New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands) and south-east Australia.
Kunzea ericoides, commonly known as kānuka, kanuka, or white tea-tree, is a tree or shrub in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to New Zealand. It has white or pink flowers similar to those of Leptospermum and from its first formal description in 1832 until 1983 was known as Leptospermum ericoides.
Camellia sinensis (aka Thea sinensis), from which black, green, oolong and white tea are all obtained; Melaleuca species in the family Myrtaceae, sources for tea tree oil; Leptospermum species, also in the family Myrtaceae, source for Mānuka honey; Kunzea ericoides, known as White tea-tree or kānuka, a tree or shrub of New Zealand
It is known in the United States as the Australian tea tree [16] and in South Africa as the Australian myrtle. [15] The seeds can be dispersed by wind and water. [10] It has now become naturalised in New Zealand, southern Africa, California and Hawaii. [10] The larvae of Holocola thalassinana feed on Leptospermum laevigatum. [17]
In recent years manuka plantations in the East Cape region of New Zealand are allowing for the mechanical harvesting of manuka leaf to produce essential oil at a commercial scale. The oil is distilled from the leaves and small branches of the manuka bush using the technique of steam distillation where the steam is passed through the leaf material.
The seed cones are highly modified, reduced to a central stem 3–4 cm long bearing 1–6 scales, each scale maturing berry-like, 10–15 mm long, violet-purple with a soft edible pulp covering the single seed. The seeds are dispersed by the New Zealand pigeon (kererū), which eats the 'berries' and passes the seeds in its droppings.
Alectryon excelsus is a sub-canopy tree growing to 9 m (30 ft) in height. It has a twisting trunk with smooth dark bark, spreading branches and pinnate leaves. [2] Adult leaflets do not have marginal teeth or usually have very few, blunt and shallow marginal teeth and usually leaflet margins are downturned, whereas, in juvenile leaflets have leaflets with strong teeth and flat along the edges. [3]
Pittosporum eugenioides, common names lemonwood or tarata, is a species of New Zealand native evergreen tree. Growing to 12 m (39 ft) tall by 5 m (16 ft) broad, it is conical when young but more rounded in shape when mature. [ 1 ]