Gaudium brevipes, commonly known as the slender tea-tree, is a species of shrub or small tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has fibrous bark on the main stems, smooth bark on young stems, narrow elliptical to narrow egg-shaped leaves, white flowers and hemispherical fruit that is shed when mature.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Slender Teatree being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Gaudium trinervium
- Leptospermum polygalifolium
- Leptospermum obovatum
- Leptospermum grandifolium
- Leptospermum myrtifolium
- Aggreflorum ellipticum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Myrtales
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Genus
- Gaudium
- Species
- Gaudium brevipes
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