ti-trees

Nearly half of the area comprises moorland vegetation, dominated by buttongrass Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus on poor soils and typically surrounded by scrub and heath communities with ti-trees Leptospermum spp. and paperbarks Melaleuca spp. predominant.

Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia 2008

Taking the Bluff, with its paths, seats and vivid grass-carpet, in his stride, he scrambled down the loose sand of the cliff, through the young scrub and the ragged, storm-bent ti-trees, which were just bursting into pearly blossom.

Ultima Thule 2003

The path which led up to the intrenchment, lay across fields of “phormium” and a grove of beautiful trees, the “kai-kateas” with persistent leaves and red berries; “dracaenas australis,” the “ti-trees” of the natives, whose crown is a graceful counterpart of the cabbage-palm, and

In Search of the Castaways 2003

Directly they were clear of the township the road as good as ceased, became a mere sandy track, running through a scrub of ti-trees. —

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

"He can't have got in there," said Eustace, with a nod towards the thickly growing stems of ti-trees rearing up from long coarse grass.

Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

Here was a roofless room, open on one side where a break in the ti-trees showed the sandy bed of the creek, which, at first, to Lady Bridget's fancy, had the appearance of a broad shallow stream.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

They had rounded a knoll abutting on the green line of ti-trees and swamp oak.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

Tettawonga told of a Bunyip that dwelt where the trickling water had made a pool, deep and beautiful, and delicate ferns had crept tenderly to fringe its edge, and blackwood, and ti-trees grown up thick and strong for a girdle.

Seven Little Australians Ethel Sybil Turner 1915

It was a small lagoon surrounded by sturdy ti-trees, and with its surface almost covered by the blooms and leaves of pink water-lilies, over which a myriad of blue dragon-flies and other winged insects were skimming.

Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900

He ran through the ti-trees; he ran through the mulga; he ran through the long grass; he ran through the short grass; he ran through the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer; he ran till his hind legs ached.

Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900