| Prickly Paperbark |
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| File size | 460224 |
| Original date | 5/6/11 7:32 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/30s |
| Aperture | 3.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY |
| Camera model | KODAK EASYSHARE C190 DIGITAL CAMERA |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Melaleuca styphelioides Family: Myrtaceae (Bottlebrush family)
Prickly Paperbark is a small to medium sized tree up to 20 m tall, with a
dense, rounded canopy and drooping branchlets. The spongy bark is white or
light brown and peels of in large strips. The stalkless leaves are 7-15 mm
long and 2.5-6 mm wide, ovate to broad-ovate. These are slightly twisted, have sharply-pointed
tips, and are arranged alternately on the branchlets. Flowers appear in
summer in cream or white cylindrical bottlebrush-like spikes which are 2-5
cm long and 1-2 cm in diameter. Often new growth appears at the end of the
spikes. Following flowering, grey-brown, woody capsules appear in clusters
along the branchlets. These are ovoid, stalkless and 3-4 mm in diameter.
Prickly Paperbark is native to eastern Australia.
Identification credit: Amit Kumar
| Photographed in Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. |