Tall stately tree to 20m along natural creek bank habitat. Some forms have weeping foliage, others are more stiff in appearance. The white bottlebrush flowers occur in autumn. The plant is happy in clay soils. Melaleuca nodosa Small tree to 4m, a paperbark, which is covered in pale yellow ball flowers in spring.
Leaves are fine and needlelike.
Melaleuca quinquenervia Paperbark Tea Tree. A spreading paperbark when grown in the open, to 8m tall. It's usual habitat is swampy ground, as shown in photograph. It produces white flowers in autumn, and a strong honey. Melicope elleryana Pink Evodia.