This vigorous species from south-eastern Australia is one of the most widely cultivated Melaleucas available. With light green, narrow leaves and white, bottlebrush-like flowers, it grows into a large spreading shrub or small tree to 8 m. Although it is an attractive small tree, is has become invasive in high rainfall areas of South Australia, spreading from roadsides into adjacent bushland.

Note that Melaleuca armillaris ssp. akineta is indigenous to northern Eyre Peninsula, where it is rare.

This round-headed, small-tomedium- sized bushy tree from south-eastern Australia will grow to 9 m high. It is tolerant of sandy, dry soils, and coastal salt spray. Although known as a coastal plant, it also grows successfully on heavy clay soils. It is extremely heat-tolerant and once established will grow with minimal additional irrigation.

This is a South Australian native shrub or small tree, 1–8 m high. Flowers are showy white or cream in large clusters flowering mainly in summer and sporadically throughout the cooler months. It is very hardy and will grow on clay or loam soils, brown, grey or white sand, limestone ridges, coastal cliffs and dunes, salt flats and near salt lakes.

This tree with graceful, weeping foliage will reach 15 m in ideal growing conditions. It has fibrous bark and lance-shaped leaves. The white, 5-petalled flowers are massed along the branches in spring and summer. There are several popular cultivars available including 'Nana', a compact form to about 4 m and 'Variegata', a dainty form with variegated foliage.