Kunzea ericoides (A.Rich.) Joy Thomps.

Burgan (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Myrtales > Myrtaceae > Kunzea

Characteristics

An evergreen shrub. It grows 3 m tall or taller. It can be up to 10 m tall. The leaves are soft. They vary in shape and are up to 2.5 cm long and 5 mm wide. The flowers are white and in clusters. The fruit are capsules 2-4.5 mm across and with seeds 1-1.5 mm across.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 3.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 0.5
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a warm temperate plant. It is frost tender. It can grow in very acid soils. It needs full sun and does well in moist soils. It is hardy to zone 8. It grows up to 2,000 m above sea level. In Melbourne Botanical garden.
More
Lowland to montane shrubland, especially on margins, from sea level to 900 metres. Grows in heath and sclerophyll forest, common at higher elevations; often along watercourses.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 1-6
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-10

Usage

Uses essential oil material medicinal wood
Edible leaves saps shoots
Therapeutic use Blood (unspecified), Breath (unspecified), Constipation (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Dysuria (unspecified), Eye (unspecified), Mouth (unspecified), Pain (unspecified), Skin (unspecified), Throat (unspecified), Sedative (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants can be grown by seeds.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -5
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Kunzea ericoides unspecified picture

Distribution

Kunzea ericoides world distribution map, present in Australia, New Zealand, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:912742-1
WFO ID wfo-0000221576
COL ID 3RFSD
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Kunzea ericoides Kunzea leptospermoides Leptospermum ericoides Leptospermum ericoides var. microflorum