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tea tree
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tea tree
any of various myrtaceous trees of the genus Leptospermum, of Australia and New Zealand, that yield an oil used as an antiseptic


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Some tree options are Chinese Elm, Australian and New Zealand tea trees, and melaleucas.
Pumpkin seed works as a natural form of salicylic acid, and melaleuca, the sap of tea trees, works as an anti-bacterial.
The Mount William National Park in the north-east corner of the island was set up to preserve the strange and beautiful vegetation in which myrtle mixes with tea trees, celery-top pines, mountain peppers and many other Antipodean species, among which wander wallabies, quolls (marsupial cats) and wombats, while raptors soar overhead.
 
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