Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata
Common name
Dolly Bush, Common Cassinia, Dogwood
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
A wide range of habitats, most frequently forest, woodland, and disturbed sites. One of the few native shrubs that can persist in the understorey of Pinus radiata plantations. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub to about 3 m high. Trunk and older branches with smooth to lightly stringy bark, longitudinally fissured on the trunk, becoming black and flaky. Young stems green to reddish, densely sticky hairy, sometimes not sticky. Leaves almost opposite each other at the bases of twigs, alternating higher up the stems, 0.3–5.5 cm long, 0.7–2.5 mm wide, margins usually rolled dowm, lower surface almost to quite obscured. Flower heads creamy white to white (rarely pink in bud, fading to white) 3.5–5 mm long, with 4-7 florets and 0 petals, in clusters 20–130 mm in diameter of 30-200 flower heads. Flowers October to February.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cassinia~aculeata
(accessed 7 January, 2021)
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