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Melaleuca trichostachya macro
Pictured here are the beautiful, tiny flowers of Melaleuca trichostycha, commonly called snow-in-summer.
These flowers form en masse in late spring/early summer (and some like this, popping up later in the season). From a distance, it really does look like a fresh fall of snow upon the plant.
New foliage growth is a very pretty deep pink to fiery red.
Diameter of flower group here 25 mm.
"Melaleuca trichostachya" is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is native to inland northern New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory in Australia. It is a small tree, similar to the commonly cultivated "Melaleuca styphelioides", with its prickly foliage and fluffy spikes of white or cream flowers but there are differences in the leaf arrangement and fruiting capsules.
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