| Hi all,
I would like to see if anyone here can help me identify a suspected Melaleuca sp. that is growing in one garden around here (in a clump of three). My own searches have found the closest match to be Melaleuca micromera but there seems to be some differences. Perhaps someone here can tell me if it is indeed M.micromera or something else.
Compared to M. micromera
- The leaves are just as fine or finer and the tree looks a conifer when not in flower. From memory the leaves are in whorls of 3. The leaves and plant has a rich, dark green colour to it.
- The flowers are similar: perhaps smaller and white rather than cream. Flowered up here recently (late spring). I tried to key out the flowers (from a highly amateurish understanding) and the structure of the flowers (I think it was to do with the stamens?) seemed to match Melaleuca and not some of the similar genuses such as Kunzea. The seed pods are like Melaleuca/Callistomen etc.
- The plant is much larger: they are about 3-5m tall.
- The plant has a very pronounced weeping habit; even the upper branches weep until they scrape the ground. It is possible to stand inside the tree and be almost hidden: the centre is quite clean.
- The plants are multi-stemmed (two or three) and the bark is the typical thick papery type.
The plant is extremely attractive to my eye and I am trying to propagate it. But I would love to know if it is an overgrown M.micromera or something different again.
Thanks from the tropics, | 
