University of California Santa Cruz Arboretum

Melaleuca hadra growing in the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum

Melaleuca hadra

Published by Daniel Mosquin on December 13, 2017

Now lumped into Melaleuca, this species was first described and published under the name Eremaea hadra in 1993 by the Canadian-Australian botanist Roger Hnatiuk.

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Chamelaucium uncinatum 'Purple Pride'

Chamelaucium uncinatum ‘Purple Pride’

Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 21, 2017

A return to Western Australia with today’s plant! Commonly known as Geraldton wax, Chamelaucium uncinatum is endemic to “coastal areas, edges of swamps, hillsides, [and] plains” of Western Australia.

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