Gaudium semibaccatum is a species of low, dense shrub that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has egg-shaped to narrow elliptical leaves with a blunt tip, white or pink flowers and hairy, flat-topped fruit that falls from the plant shortly after the seeds are released. It grows in poorly-drained soil in coastal heath.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Soft-fruited 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 parvifolium
- Pericalymma ellipticum
- Gaudium myrsinoides
- Leptospermopsis erubescens
- Gaudium microcarpum
- Leptospermum liversidgei
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Myrtales
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Genus
- Gaudium
- Species
- Gaudium semibaccatum
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