 The move has not been adopted by all Australian herbaria with some taxonomists, including Alex George opposing the move.The name "Melaleuca" is derived from the Ancient Greek μέλας ("mélas") meaning "dark" or "black" and λευκός ("leukós") meaning "white", apparently because one of the first specimens described had fire-blackened white bark.The common name "tea-tree" has been applied to species in the genera "Leptospermum", "Melaleuca", "Kunzea", and "Baeckea" because the sailors on the "Endeavour" used the leaves of a shrub from one of these groups as a replacement for tea "Camellia sinensis" during Captain James Cook's 1770 voyage to Australia.