Melaleuca

Japanese: Melaleuca
Melaleuca

…An evergreen tree of the Myrtaceae family, which produces oil from its leaves, reaching a height of 10–20 m. It usually grows in colonies in swamps just behind mangrove forests. The bark is gray-white, papery, overlapping, and peels off in irregular flakes, but the inner bark is corky. The leaves are short-stalked, alternate, leathery, oblong or lanceolate, with many parallel longitudinal veins, 5–17 cm long, pointed at both ends, and fragrant when crushed. The flowers are small, borne in spikes 3–5 cm long, with five yellowish-white, sometimes red, 2–3 mm long. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Melaleuca" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…葉から油を採るフトモモ科の常緑高木で高さ10~20mとなる。通常,マングローブ林のすぐ後方の湿地に生え,群生する。樹皮はシラカバに似て灰白色,紙状でまき重なり,不規則に薄片となってはげるが,内皮はコルク質である。葉は短い柄を有し,互生,革質で長楕円形ないし披針形,多くの縦の平行脈があり,長さ5~17cm,両端はとがり,もめば芳香がある。花は小さく長さ3~5cmの花序に穂状につき,花弁は5枚で黄白色,時に紅色,長さ2~3mm。…

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