Melaleuca is a local native tree which is known by different names.  Tasmania’s Department of Primary Industries, Parks , Water and Environment explains: ‘Tea-tree and paperbark wet scrub and forest can regenerate without any large scale disturbance such as fire. Tea-tree and paperbark wet scrub and forest are dominated by manuka (Leptospermum scoparium), soft-fruited tea-tree (Leptospermum glaucescens), shiny tea-tree (Leptospermum nitidum), woolly tea-tree (Leptospermum lanigerum), swamp paperbark (Melaleuca ericifolia), and scented paperbark (Melaleuca squarrosa); and usually has an understorey of rainforest species. In northern Tasmania and on the Bass Strait islands dense forests dominated by swamp paperbark are widespread.  There are large areas of tea-tree and paperbark wet scrub and forest on the west coast, particularly where mining settlements have been associated with the burning of rainforest. They can also be seen in the north west of the state in some of the swampy flats between Smithton and Marrawah.’I did not leave the Mt Cameron West track to look closely at the leaves or bark of the melaleuca trees so I cannot make an accurate identification – but I suspect they were the Melaleuca ericifolia (swamp paperbark).  Perhaps a blog reader can tell us more?