melaleuca
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- noun
- /ˌmɛləˈlukə/
- Australian
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melaleuca
- Near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 50-foot-high melaleuca trees threaten to destroy the delicate ecosystem of the Everglades.
- melaleuca leaf
- melaleuca tree
- melaleuca sapling
Examples
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Today, millions of the quarter-inch-long weevils are eating the young leaves of melaleuca trees.
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Aerial applications kill standing melaleuca, but after the treated trees release their seeds, the emerging seedlings require treatment.
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"There is no way to effectively control melaleuca with just one treatment," says Silvers.
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Two insect biological control agents are currently at work on melaleuca, and a third is about to be released.
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Currently, applying herbicide is the most common method used to control melaleuca in South Florida.
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Herbicide is also sprayed from aircraft over large areas where melaleuca is dense or hard to reach by other means.
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Both melaleuca and O. vitiosa, the melaleuca leaf weevil, are native to Australia, but neither is a pest there.
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Hardworking insects imported from Australia to attack melaleuca trees may help stop this weed from overrunning Florida's Everglades.
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Weevil adults and grubs, or larvae, feed voraciously on Melaleuca's young, silvery leaves.
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While hiking in Australia, I admired the beautiful white flowers of the melaleuca trees along the path.
Synonyms
A tree with bark that peels off in thin, papery layers
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Melaleuca comes from Greek words melas 'black' and leukos 'white'. Many melaleuca trees have dark trunks under pale, papery bark, so the name is a simple picture of their black-and-white look.