Leptospermum juniperinum, commonly known as the prickly tea tree,[2] is a species of broom-like shrub that is endemic to eastern Australia.

It has narrow, sharply pointed leaves, white flowers usually arranged singly on short side shoots and small fruit that remain on the plant when mature.

Flowering mostly occurs from November to December and the fruit is a capsule usually less than 7 mm (0.28 in) wide and that is not shed when mature.

[2][3] Leptospermum juniperinum was first formally described in 1797 by James Edward Smith in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.

[6] Prickly tea-tree grows in near-coastal swamps, heath and sedgeland and on sandstone cliffs between Fraser Island in Queensland and Ulladulla in New South Wales.