Melaleuca nesophila, commonly known as showy honey-myrtle, mindiyed or pink melaleuca, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to an area near Albany in Western Australia. The Noongar name for the plant is mindiyet. Hardy and adaptable, with a dense crown of leaves and prolific heads of pink or purple flowers in late spring and summer, it is one of the most commonly cultivated melaleuca shrubs
Melaleuca nesophila is a large shrub or small tree growing to 4.7โ6 m (20โ20 ft) in height by 4โ5 m (10โ20 ft) in width. It has greyish-white, papery bark and a dense crown which often reaches to the ground. Its leaves are arranged alternately, 11โ26 mm (0.4โ1 in) long, 4โ9 mm (0.2โ0.4 in) wide, flat, elliptic to narrow egg-shaped with rounded ends. The lavender to rose pink "pom-pom" flowers appear over a long period from spring to mid-summer. The flowers are arranged in heads or short spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to 30 mm (1 in) in diameter and contain between 2 and 20 groups of flowers in threes. The fruit are woody capsules 3โ5 mm (0.1โ0.2 in) long, arranged in roughly spherical clusters about 20 mm (0.8 in) in diameter