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COASTAL DAISY BUSH FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Coastal Daisy Bush
Other Names
Coast Daisy-bush
Description
The Coastal Daisy Bush is a Branching shrub 2-3 m tall with the branches and undersides of leaves covered in a woolly mat of very fine, dense hairs, giving the plant an overall grey-green appearance. Leaves thin to oblanceolate (reversed spear-shaped), 4-40 mm long and 1-6 mm wide with recurved margins.
Flower-heads in the angles between branches and leaves and stalkless or almost so. Flowers white with yellow centres. Fruit a silky achene.
Habitat
The Coastal Daisy Bush occurs in southern coastal regions of Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania.
Distribution
South Australia, Western Australia, Victoria., New South Wales, Tasmania.,
Growth Characteristics
Height (m): 2 - 3
Spread (m): 1.5 - 2
Soil Texture: sand, loam, clay, limestone
Soil pH: acid soils, neutral soils, alkaliine soils
Frost Sensitivity: resistant
Minimum Rainfall (mm): 400
Flower Colour: white
Flower Season: spring
(source: SA State Flora Catalog)
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Asterales | | Family: | Asteraceae | | Genus: | Olearia | | Species: | axillaris | | Common Name: | Coastal Daisy Bush |
Relatives in same Genus
Olearia ramulosa
Olearia stuartii
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