Paperbark Tea Tree

Gaudium trinervium, commonly known as flaky-barked tea-tree, slender tea-tree or paperbark tree, is a species of shrub or small tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has papery bark that is shed in thin, flaking layers, narrow elliptic to broadly egg-shaped leaves with the narrower at the base, white flowers and silky-hairy fruit that falls from the plant when mature.

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Is it poisonous?

We have no record of Paperbark Tea Tree 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 brevipes
• Aggreflorum ellipticum
• Leptospermum polygalifolium
• Leptospermum variabile
• Leptospermum grandifolium
• Gaudium laevigatum

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Myrtales

Family

Myrtaceae

Genus

Gaudium

Species

Gaudium trinervium

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