Olearia argophylla

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms > Eudicots > Asterids >  Asterales > Asteraceae > Olearia  argophylla 

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Plant  information

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

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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

Source of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olearia_argophylla (2023)