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Tea tree or Ti-tree is a popular name that has been applied to a number of different, unrelated plants:

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Tea tree or Ti-tree is a popular name that has been applied to a number of different, unrelated plants:
  • Camellia sinensis
    Camellia sinensis

    Camellia sinensis, the tea plant, is the species of plant whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce tea. It is of the genus Camellia , a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae....
     (aka Thea sinensis), from which black, green, oolong and white tea are all obtained.
  • Melaleuca
    Melaleuca

    Melaleuca is a genus of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are well over 200 recognized species, most of which are endemic to Australia....
     from which tea tree oil
    Tea tree oil

    Tea tree oil or melaleuca oil is a clear to very pale golden color essential oil with a fresh camphoraceous odor. It is taken from the leaf of the Melaleuca alternifolia which is native to the northeast coast of New South Wales, Australia....
     is obtained, in the family Myrtaceae
    Myrtaceae

    The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtus, clove, guava, feijoa, allspice, and eucalyptus belong here....
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  • Leptospermum
    Leptospermum

    Leptospermum is a genus of about 80-86 species of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. Most species are endemic to Australia, with the greatest diversity in the south of the continent; but one species extends to New Zealand, another to Malaysia, and Leptospermum recurvum is endemic to Malaysia....
    , also in the family Myrtaceae; notably
    • Leptospermum scoparium
      Leptospermum scoparium

      Leptospermum scoparium is a shrub or small tree native to New Zealand and southeast Australia. It is found throughout New Zealand but is particularly common on the drier east coasts of the North Island and the South Island, and in Australia in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales....
       (Manuka) in New Zealand
      New Zealand

      New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
       and southeast Australia
      Australia

      Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
      .
  • Kanuka
    Kanuka

    Kunzea ericoides is a tree or shrub which is restricted to Australia and New Zealand. Until 1983, Kanuka was classified as being in the genus Leptospermum....
     (Kunzea ericoides) also in New Zealand.
  • Boxthorn
    Boxthorn

    Boxthorn is a genus of the nightshade family , containing about 90 species of plants native throughout much of the temperate and Subtropics zones of the world....
     or Lycium in the family Solanaceae
    Solanaceae

    The Solanaceae is a family of flowering plants, that contains a number of important agricultural plants as well as many toxic plants. The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum "the nightshade plant", but the further etymology of that word is unclear....
    , notably
    • Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree (Lycium barbarum), also known as Wolfberry or Matrimony Vine.
  • Ti (plant)
    Ti (plant)

    Cordyline fruticosa , is an evergreen flowering plant in the family Liliaceae, formerly treated in the families Agavaceae and Laxmanniaceae....
    , Cordyline fruticosa, in the family Laxmanniaceae
    Laxmanniaceae

    Laxmanniaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by only few taxonomists.The APG II system does not recognize this family as such, but allows it to be segregated from the family Asparagaceae, as an optional segregate....
    , formerly treated in the family Agavaceae
    Agavaceae

    Agavaceae is a family of plants that includes many well-known desert and dry zone types such as the agave, yucca, and Yucca brevifolia. The family includes about 550-600 species in around 18 genus, and is widespread in the tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of the world....
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  • Tea Tree, Tasmania is a locality south of Hobart
    Hobart

    Hobart is the List of Australian capital cities and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1803 as a penal colony, Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney....
    .
  • Ti Tree, Northern Territory
    Ti Tree, Northern Territory

    Ti Tree is a small town in the Northern Territory, Australia along the Stuart Highway 193 km north of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 311 km south of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory and 1289 km south of Darwin, Northern Territory in Australia....
     is a small town.