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Australian honey myrtle macro

This is a macro of the tiny, pretty little flowers of native honey myrtle, Melaleuca thymifolia. Unique aren't they?

 

The flowerheads contain up to 10 individual flowers and the conspicuous stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flower, each bundle containing up to 60 curved stamens.

 

Each flowerhead just 20 mm diameter.

 

Endemic to these parts, along the east coast here in New South Wales, up in to Queensland.

 

Usually growing to around 1 m in height, dense foliage.

 

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Uploaded on May 4, 2022
Taken on October 28, 2021