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ULTRAMETRIC TREE. Melaleuca linariifolia, Flaxleaf paperbark tree.
North cul-de-sac of Tolman Drive.

An ultrametric tree is a tree for which every leaf is equidistant from the root—as in these hemisphere-like paperbark trees, which have all their foliage around the outside of the tree.

Photo: Noah Rosenberg, June 22, 2018