Leptospermum trinervium

Leptospermum trinervium, the slender tea-tree or paperbark tea-tree, is a shrub or small tree of the family Myrtaceae endemic to eastern Australia, typically reaching 2-6 m in height. The trunk and main branches are clad in distinctive papery, pale grey bark that sheds in thin flaking strips, while the younger twigs are silky-hairy. The narrow elliptical to ovate leaves are 9-22 mm long and 1-6 mm wide, with blunt tips, short petioles and several faint longitudinal veins. White, five-petalled flowers 7-15 mm across are borne singly or in pairs on short side shoots in spring to early summer, with hairy sepals and a central cup of numerous stamens, followed by small woody capsules. It grows on sandstone-derived soils in eucalypt forest, heath, and scrub from Rockhampton in Queensland south through New South Wales to far eastern Victoria.