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The evergreen tea tree grows to a height of about 7 metres and belongs, like eucalyptus, to the family of the myrtle shrubs. It has narrow, soft, densely placed needle-like leaves. The slightly yellowish tea tree oil is made from these leaves through vapour distillation. Thousand kilograms of leaves give 10 litres of the fresh herbal, etheric and fragrant oil. The origins of the tea tree are found in the subtropical coastal zones of Australia. It is a strong tree with a high resistance to disease. The healing properties of the oil have been known to the aborigines of Australia for thousands of years. The first white colonists quickly learned from the aborigines of the properties of the tea tree oil. In Australia one of its many uses is as a disinfectant.
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