Melaleuca alternifolia Cheel

Shrub or small tree 4–7 m tall with soft layered peeling papery bark; branchlets glabrescent.. Leaves alternate, linear, 1–3.5 cm long, usually under 1 mm wide.. Flowers white, solitary within each bract arranged in many-flowered spikes, terminal or from upper axils.. Petals rounded ovate, 2 mm long and wide.. Staminal bundles with claw 11 mm long and 30–35 filaments spread all over claw, those at base shortest.

Often in dense, impenetrable, thickets, usually in swamps by the coast, and at elevations up to 300 metres.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.