Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Olearia argophylla
Common name
Native Musk, Silver Shrub, Musk daisy-bush
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, rainforest margins, and wet gullies. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 15 m high. Bark fissured to slightly stringy, flaky. Branchlets covered by appressed silvery or pale brown hairs, sometimes becoming hairless with age. Leaves smell slightly musky, alternating up the stems, 1.5–20 cm long, 10–90 mm wide, upper surface at first appressed hairy, soon becoming hairless and shiny green, lower surface silvery or white, venation reticulate, margins toothed, scalloped, or entire, tips gradually tapering to a point or pointed, mucronate. Flower heads 10–27 mm in diameter overall, conical below the 'petals', with 3–8 white 'petals', and cream or pale yellow centres. Flower heads in many-flowered branched clusters at the tops of the stems. Flowering: September–April.
Hybridises with Olearia erubescens.
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=Olearia~argophylla (accessed 23 January, 2021)
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