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Coastal tree daisy
| Common
name: Coastal tree daisy |
Botanical
name: Olearia solandri |
| Family: Asteraceae
(Daisy family) |
Maximum height: 4
metres |
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Where found:
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- Coastal hills and rocky cliffs near the sea
- Up to 500 metres
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| Description: |
- Shrub or small tree with stiff, spreading, angled branches,
the branches are sticky with yellowish dense matted hairs (tomentum),
scented
- Leaves are leathery, lower surface has yellow tomentum, leaves
on young plants are larger (up to 15 mm long) than adult leaves
(5-10 mm long)
- White flowers up to 10 mm across occur singly on short branchlets,
flowering from February to April
- Fluffy seeds, occurring till October
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PHOTO: Barry Hartley
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