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Tea tree

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  1. 1
    A locality in Brighton council area and the Southern Midlands council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.
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  1. 1
    The tea plant (Camellia sinensis), from which black, green, oolong and white tea are all obtained.
  2. 2
    The tree Melaleuca alternifolia, from which tea tree oil is obtained.

    "It was a subject requiring the figure. The figure of a girl standing in the water, dappled by light and shade through the tea-tree, with the sunlit bank behind her. Bradly scanned the lagoon up and down, searching the clumps of mangrove for the figure of a girl."

  3. 3
    A shrub or small tree native to New Zealand and southeast Australia (Leptospermum scoparium).
  4. 4
    The kanuka, Kunzea ericoides.
  5. 5
    The duke of Argyll's tea tree (Lycium barbarum), also known as wolfberry or matrimony vine.
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  1. 6
    The shrub ti (Cordyline fruticosa).

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