Leptospermum scoparium

The Südseemyrte (Leptospermum scoparium), and Manuka (of Māori: Manuka), and a species in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) is. It is indigenous to the mountainous regions of New Zealand and southeastern Australia (New South Wales). From it, and especially Manuka Manuka honey produced.

The Südseemyrte growing shrub or tree-shaped to 4 meters high. The branches and young leaves are silvery hairs more or covered less dense in the older parts will dissolve the bark off in long strips. The almost-fitting, stiff, sharp pointed, erect or horizontally projecting leaves occur in two main forms (but not on the same plant): narrow-lanceolate or ovate with heart-shaped base, and are 4-12 (rarely 20) mm long and 1 - 4 mm wide. The flowers are usually single in the leaf axils, and occasionally at the end of branches and are short stalked up to a sitting position. You have a wide peg flower cups with triangular, soon falling cup corners. The outstretched petals are round, about 6 mm long and white, rarely pink. The filaments of approximately 20 stamens are much thinner than the pen. From the upper side glabrous ovary, a fünfkammerige, woody capsule fruit develops from 3-7 × 4-10 mm size, which extend beyond the flower cup.


Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCdseemyrte
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