Origin: Australia, India and Malaysia. Australia and Taiwan Province Province are widely planted as street trees and windbreaks after introduction.
Alias: acacia, acacia japonica, white bottle brush tree, peeled tree.
Stems: evergreen trees, plant height1.2 ~ 20m. The bark of this tree is mostly thin cork.
Soft and elastic, like a sponge, it is gray and easy to fall off. Children often peel it off for fun or as an eraser.
Leaves: Leaves are similar to acacia, alternate, elliptic and needle-shaped, entire, with red petiole.
Flowers: spikes, terminal, yellow and white, sessile, like a bottle brush tree.
Fruit: the capsule is flat and short, attached to the old branches. The seeds are small and slightly linear.
Flowering: September ~165438+1October.
Uses: Excellent landscape trees in street gardens, and also windbreaks.
Light brown (light brown white) multi-layer bark, thin and loose as a sponge, can be peeled off layer by layer; Flowers are white or yellowish, like small bottle brushes; Alternate leaves, as small and thin as willow leaves (lanceolate), are similar in shape and texture to acacia.
Have people who have seen Melaleuca bark ever suspected that the ancients were inspired by Melaleuca bark to make paper? Although the cork cambium of Melaleuca Melaleuca grows new bark and pushes out the old bark every year, its old bark remains on the trunk layer by layer, and the older the outer bark is. Over the years, you can see that the trunk of Melaleuca is "tattered" and the bark is covered with clothes. How many floors does Melaleuca have? If you work it out, you can probably know its age.
Toxic parts: pollen.
Poisoning symptoms: sensitive person's inhalation of pollen can cause respiratory tract allergy, headache, severe sneezing, headache, nausea, asthma and other symptoms. Sometimes a small red rash appears.
The cork tissue of bark is very developed, and many layers can fall off. It is gray, spongy and elastic, and children often peel it off to play or use it as an eraser. In fact, when the eraser is ineffective, it will hurt the bark. Pick a few leaves, tear them apart and clip them on your eyelids and cheeks as decoration.