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Melaleuca
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Melaleuca
see tea tree oil.


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Two natural pests have been used in the TAME effort, the melaleuca leaf weevil, Oxyops vitiosa, which eat the leaves of young melaleucas, and psyllid Boreioglycaspis melaleucae, an aphid-like insect that eats the tree's sap.
In ``Flora,'' you will be introduced to white-and-violet-flowered, gold-stamened melaleucas and wonder why these tall shrubs to medium-size trees, native to an Australian climate much like our own, are not more frequently encountered in our local nurseries.
 
 
 
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