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I had ever understood that the tea tree was Melaleuca rather than Leptospermum. The essential oil --- sometimes called cajeput --- is sold here as a sort of minor external antiseptic, and Melaleuca alternifolia is the usual name given. Has it been reclassified or assigned to a different genus? -- Smerdis of Tlön 07:34, 9 Sep 2003 (EDT)
The above comments are correct in essence ... er ... no pun intended. ;) It's still Leptospermum. Melaleucas are also very common in Australia though, and look rather similar. Common names don't really work very well with Australian flora (i.e., there is often not a 1:1 relationship between the plant genus and the usual common name) but generally speaking, melaleucas are called "paperbarks". The reality is that these days, the best-accepted common name for Melaleuca is "melaleuca". (The same could be said for quite a few others, by the way, though not Leptospermum.) Tea-tree is Leptospermum. Melaleucas are not tea-trees, nor are they bottlebrushes, they are paperbarks. The essential oil makers have it wrong, simple as that. However, the error is so well-established and so widespread that it needs to be mentioned in both articles. Tannin 23:37, 10 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Leptospermum and melaleuca look similar (from a distance) until you see them flowering. Then you realize they're completely different. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.182.162.17 (talk) 01:03, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Were tea-tree leaves ever used in the early Colony of NSW as a substitute for 'real' tea? I am unable to find any evidence to substantiate this, and wonder if it is another 'Botany Bay Mirage', i.e. urban legend. This article http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page16606293 says the name is a misnomer, and the leaves no substitute for tea. This article http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page1488643 says that 'early navigators' used Leptospermum and Melaleuca infusions as antiscorbutics. Cook is elsewhere described as doing so, and a New Zealand species named. 121.44.219.123 (talk) 06:58, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/tax.12892
Seems like last year Leptospermum was divided into 5 genera, Leptospermum, Gaudium, Leptospermopsis, Apectospermum, and Aggreflorum. I don't know what the process is for deleting and moving pages when this kind of thing happens.
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