Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cassinia longifolia
Common name
Shiny cassinia, Cauliflower bush, Long-leaf dogwood
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, roadsides and disturbed sites, and rocky areas. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub to 2.5 m tall. Stems sticky hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 1.5-12 cm long, 1-9 mm wide, upper surface dark green, glossy, hairless and sticky apart from some cottony hairs on the deeply sunken midrib, lower surface with stalkless golden globular glandular hairs obscured by a mat of white to pale grey cottony hairs, the cottony hairs sometimes sparse and then lower surface pale green, midrib deeply sunken on the upper surface, prominent on the lower surface, margins flat to rolled down, tips pointed. Flower heads 2-4.5 mm long, white, cylindrical to oval or slightly bell-shaped, with 5-6 creamy white florets with 0 petals, in dense clusters of 50-400 flower heads, 50-200 mm in diameter. Flowers Summer to Autumn.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Description partly based on Orchard, A.E. (28 October 2009), A revision of Cassinia (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) in Australia. 6. Section Cassinia. Australian Systematic Botany 22(5): 360-365, Figs 6, 7, 8 (map)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cassinia~longifolia (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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