Leptospermum grandiflorum is a species of shrub or small tree that is endemic to eastern Tasmania. It has thick, elliptical to egg-shaped, greyish green leaves, white flowers about in diameter arranged singly on short side branches, and fruit that remain on the plant for long time after reaching maturity.
Leptospermum grandiflorum is a densely-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of or more and has rough bark on older branches and whitish young stems. The leaves are thick, greyish green, elliptical to broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long and wide, tapering to a short, often twisted petiole. The flowers are arranged singly on short side branches on a pedicel about long and are about in diameter. The floral cup is dark and wrinkled, about long and more or less glabrous. The sepals are broadly egg-shaped to round, long and fall off as the fruit develops. The petals are white, about long and the stamens long. Flowering occurs from February to April and the fruit is a capsule wide that remains on the plant.[1]
Leptospermum grandiflorum was first formally described in 1821 by the British nurserymen Joachim, George and William Loddiges in their journal, The Botanical Cabinet.[2] [3]
This tea-tree grows on granite rocks in eastern Tasmania, mostly on or near the Freycinet Peninsula.