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Handmade soap: olive oil, palm oil, coconut oil, castor oil, cocoa butter, goat milk, essential oils (lavender, mint, geranium,tea tree).
Today has been a beautiful sunny day, so taking a little break from work (working from home today) I decided to mooch around the garden and take a couple of shots...
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In the mountains and growing between the rocks are amazing tea trees. Some of the trees are up to 100 years old and all of them are picked by Tamil women, who you can hear laughing and chatting across the canyon.
Narawntapu National Park - Tasmania, Australia
Narawntapu National Park is one of the best and easiest places, at dusk, to see rare Forester kangaroos, wombats, pademelons and Bennett's wallabies and even the Tasmanian devil grazing on the open coastal plains. Its Tasmania's equivalent of the Serengeti.
Walking with Wallabies & Wombats
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Royal Tasmania Botanical Garden, Tasmania, Australia.
Melaleuca styphelioides Sm. Myrtaceae. CN: Prickly paperbark, Prickly-leaf paperbark, Prickly-leaf teatree. Native to Australia (New South Wales, Queensland). Leaves slightly twisted, have sharply-pointed tips, and are arranged alternately on the branchlets.
Synonym(s):
Leptospermum styphelioides (Sm.) Schauer
Melaleuca obliqua Büse ex de Vriese
Myrtoleucodendron styphelioides (Sm.) Kuntze
Ref. and suggested reading:
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-123912
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Mating flower wasps on a Leptospermum. I struggled to get a decent face shot of either of them so I was pleased to at least get the male up close here. Found on a bush care site in Katoomba, Blue Mountains, NSW.
Yummy, yummy, yumm! Strawberry passion is delicious!
Strawberry fragrance, cotton candy and French vanilla.
Delightful jewel beetle on Tea Tree flowers. Genus Castiarina. Possibly Castiarina sexplagiata. [Upper Blue Mountains, NSW]
Taman Negeri Tanah Becah Setiu (Setiu Wetlands State Park), Terengganu, Malaysia.
(Image credit Kevin Choong C K, with permission for public sharing).
Melaleuca cajuputi Powell (L.). Myrtaceae. CN: [Malay - Gelam, Kayu putih], Big white paperbark, Broadleaf paperbark, Broadleaf teatree, Brown teatree, Butterscotch paperbark, Cajaput-tree, Longleaf paperbark, Paperbark, Paperbark teatree, Paperbark-tree, River teatree, Swamp teatree, Weeping paperbark, Weeping teatree, Cajuput tree, Cajaputi, Broadleaf paperback, Broadleaf teatree, Swamp tea tree, River teatree, Weeping teatree. Native to the Malesia region. White bark, fissured and papery-flaky in elongated shaggy pieces, used for caulking. Young leaves silky. Common in coastal swamp. Medicinal oil from leaves and bark. Oil extracted useful as massage oil; cultivated as an ornamental tree in parks and gardens. It is also used as a screen or windbreak and tolerates dry conditions.
Synonym(s):
Melaleuca leucadendra auct. nonn.
Melaleuca minor Sm.
Ref and suggested reading:
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?23778
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-123529
www.globinmed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=a...
www.rimbundahan.org/environment/plant_lists/myrtaceae/ind...
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Caravan bird feeder hanging on the Manuka (TeaTree) tree at the end of the garden. It's looking worse for wear and really isn't that old.
I believe this is a Tea Tree Leaf Beetle - Paropsis pictipennis. Seen in bushland in Katoomba. [Upper Blue Mountains, NSW]
Photo taken along bike path through Catherine Point Reserve. North Coogee, Western Australia. These dense thickets of tea trees line the space between the path and Robb Road all the way to the old power station.
This little one and her sibling, have been around for a couple of weeks. The parents have disappeared. Usually they have been staying too far away to get a good close-up shot. This morning they decided to try the nectar in the blooms on the Tea Tree. This one was in a good, exposed position and stayed there long enough to get some good shots. This is SOOC - straight out of the camera - with only the conversion from RAW to JPG in ACDSee PRO3.
The Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera), also known as the Brush Wattlebird, is a honeyeater, a passerine bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is found in coastal and sub-coastal south-eastern Australia. The Little Wattlebird is a medium to large honeyeater, but the smallest wattlebird.[3] The appearance is similar to the Yellow Wattlebird and the Red Wattlebird.[4] The Little Wattlebird lacks the wattles[5] which characterise the wattlebirds. Juveniles are duller with less streaking and have a browner eye. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Wattlebird
My thanks also go to Oriolus84 for correcting my (previous) identification of this little bird. Your knowledge of our feathered friends is exceptional, Oriolus84!
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An absolutely glorious example of a Tea Tree totally overwhelmed with its own flowers. I have never seen one droop so low from the weight of its own blooms. It was pendulous with them! I’m not great at Tea Tree I.D. but I think this one is the Paperbark Tea Tree (Leptospermum trinervium). [Woodford, Blue Mountains, NSW]
Best viewed @ large size
Myrtaceae - Australia: Queensland, New South Wales
Tea tree
Shown: Detail of flowering branch displaying foliage, flower buds and fully opened flowers
"Leptospermum is a genus of about 80-86 species of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. Most species are endemic to Australia, with the greatest diversity in the south of the continent; but one species extends to New Zealand, another to Malaysia, and L. recurvum is endemic to Malaysia.
"They are shrubs or occasionally small trees, reaching 1-8 m tall, rarely up to 20 m, with dense branching. The leaves are evergreen, alternate, simple, sharp-tipped, and small, in most species not over 1 cm long. The flowers are up to 3 cm diameter, with five white, pink or red petals." (Wikipedia)
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Photographed in San Francisco Botanical Garden - San Francisco, California
These shadowy characters were nicking nectar from the Leptospermum flowers. The large one is, I think, a Lycid beetle but I do not know what the little one is. [Upper Blue Mountains, NSW]
Tea Tree Essential Oil is best known for its antimicrobial activities. It contains the compound Terpinen-4-ol which is thought to be the responsible for fighting all three categories of infectious organisms (bacteria, fungi, and viruses). Tea Tree Essential Oil can be used to combat a variety of ailments including acne, dandruff, athlete’s foot, lice, eczema and psoriasis.
Taman Negeri Tanah Becah Setiu (Setiu Wetlands State Park), Terengganu, Malaysia.
(Image credit Kevin Choong C K, with permission for public sharing).
Melaleuca cajuputi Powell (L.). Myrtaceae. CN: [Malay - Gelam, Kayu putih], Big white paperbark, Broadleaf paperbark, Broadleaf teatree, Brown teatree, Butterscotch paperbark, Cajaput-tree, Longleaf paperbark, Paperbark, Paperbark teatree, Paperbark-tree, River teatree, Swamp teatree, Weeping paperbark, Weeping teatree, Cajuput tree, Cajaputi, Broadleaf paperback, Broadleaf teatree, Swamp tea tree, River teatree, Weeping teatree. Native to the Malesia region. White bark, fissured and papery-flaky in elongated shaggy pieces, used for caulking. Young leaves silky. Common in coastal swamp. Medicinal oil from leaves and bark. Oil extracted useful as massage oil; cultivated as an ornamental tree in parks and gardens. It is also used as a screen or windbreak and tolerates dry conditions.
Synonym(s):
Melaleuca leucadendra auct. nonn.
Melaleuca minor Sm.
Ref and suggested reading:
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?23778
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-123529
www.globinmed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=a...
www.rimbundahan.org/environment/plant_lists/myrtaceae/ind...