Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cassinia cunninghamii
Common name
Cunningham's Everlasting
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Dry forest. Coast, ranges, and the easern edge of the tablelnds, mainly north from Jervis Bay, occasionally farther south.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Stems woolly with greyish to white hairs and with prominent scars from the bases of fallen leaves. Leaves crowded, 2–3.5 cm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, upper surface dark green and rough with fine stiff glandular hairs, lower surface with a long white tomentum, tips mucronate, bases more or less stem-clasping, margins strongly rolled down. Flower heads yellow or straw-coloured to golden brown, about 3 mm long, about 1 mm in diameter, with 3-7 bright yellow to cream florets, in dense clusters 20–80 mm in diameter. Flowering: most of year, but mainly winter–spring.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cassinia~cunninghamii
(accessed 7 January, 2021)
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