Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ozothamnus ferrugineus
Common name
Tree everlasting
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, shrubland, roadsides, moist sites, and coastal swamps. Coast, ranges, tablelands, and Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 5 m high. Branches obscurely grooved, felty, glistening with glandular exudate, sometimes not sticky. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5–6.5 cm long, 1–10 mm wide, tips pointed, bases continuing down the stems, margins narrowly curved down and often wavy, upper surface green, shining and hairless or with sparse scurfy hairs, lower surface white to creamy-white or grey, felty except on the midrib. Flower heads cylindrical to narrow top-shaped, becoming bell-shaped, 3–5 mm long, 1–4 mm in diameter, with 4–8 florets. 14–18 bracts appressed to the flower heads, inner bracts colourless and translucent in the lower half, opaque and white in the upper half, outer bracts golden to brownish or greenish. Flower heads in dense clusters of 80–300 at the tops of the stems. Flowering: summer–autumn.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ozothamnus~ferrugineus (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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