page_title: Melaleuca sieberi
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Melaleuca sieberi / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Melaleuca sieberi in the Australian National Botanic Garden
context_page_description: Melaleuca sieberi is a shrub or tree in the myrtle, family Myrtaceae, which is endemic to coastal areas of New South Wales and Queensland. It is a large shrub or small tree with papery bark on the trunk, small, sharp leaves and small heads of fluffy flowers in spring. It should not be confused with Callistemon sieberi. When the callistemons were moved to Melaleuca, Callistemon sieberi became Melaleuca paludicola.
context_section_description: Melaleuca sieberi is a small tree with white, grey or brown papery bark which sometimes grows to a height of 20 m (70 ft) but more usually less than 10 m (30 ft). Its leaves are arranged alternately, 4–15 mm (0.2–0.6 in) long, 0.8–4 mm (0.03–0.2 in) wide, narrow elliptic to lance-shaped and tapering to a sharp point. The leaves are often  covered with short, soft hairs, especially when young.
  
  The flowers are white or pinkish, arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering. The spikes contain 5 to 20 groups of flowers in threes, or sometimes individual flowers, and are up to 20 mm (0.8 in) in diameter and  20 mm (0.8 in) long. The flower buds are woolly. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flowers and each bundle contains 11 to 25 stamens. Flowering occurs in the spring and is followed by fruit which are woody, cup-shaped capsules 3–4.5 mm (0.1–0.2 in) long in loose clusters.
caption: M. sieberi foliage and fruit
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