Olearia argophylla
Musk Daisy-bush
Musk Daisy-bush
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Common name: Musk daisy-bush
Conservation status: unknown
Etymology:
Is named after Johann Gottfried Olearius, a 17th-century German scholar and author of Specimen Florae Hallensis
Flowers:
White and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences
The heads are 13–27 mm wide and arranged in corymbs on the ends of branchlets, each corymb on a peduncle up to 20 mm long
Each head or daisy-like "flower" has three to eight white ray florets, the petal-like ligule 4–10 mm long, surrounding 3 to 8yellow disc florets
Flowering mainly occurs from September to February
Fruit:
A straw-coloured or pinkish achene 2.5–4.0 mm long,
Pappus with 26–43 bristles about 5 mm long
Leaves:
Alternately and egg-shaped to broadly elliptic with toothed edges
,Mostly 30–120 mm long and 20–70 mm wide on a petiole up to 25 mm long
Upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and lower is surface covered with woolly, white or silvery hairs
Stem & branches:
Roots:
Habit:
A shrub or tree with silvery branchlets that typically grows to a height of up to about 10 m
Has fissured to slightly stringy or flaky bark
Its branchlets are densely covered with fine, silvery or pale brown hairs pressed against the surface
Habitat:
Commonly grows on cool moist sheltered slopes and in fern gullies in taller eucalypt forests
Distribution:
Endemic to south-eastern Australia
From Tasmania (where it is common and widespread) to NSW
Additional notes:
Olearia argophylla can be propagated from seed or from cuttings
It prefers partial to full shade and is frost tolerant but prefers partial to full shade in soils that are neutral or slightly acidic
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