Where found:

• Lowland forest and forest margins
  
• River/stream banks, second growth forest or scrub
  

• One of the more common Olearias throughout the North Island
  
• Spreading tree with a short trunk when in the open or in enclosed forest or scrub grows as a 2-3m tall shrub, or as a tree with crown and long trunk
  
• Leaves are thin but leathery with serrated margins (5-15cm x 5cm)
  
• Large sprays of white daisies with yellow centres up to 18cm across consisting of 12-24 individual flowers (1cm across), flowering from August to November
  
• Branchlets and leaf undersides covered in soft, white/fawn dense matted hairs (tomentum)
  
• Thin greyish-brown bark