Santolina chamaecyparissus

Cotton Lavender at Hughes, ACT

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Identification history

Santolina chamaecyparissus	1 Dec 2019	MichaelMulvaney
Chrysocephalum semipapposum	30 Nov 2019	BettyDonWood
Unverified	29 Nov 2019	ruthkerruish

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Found in a weedy area near the edge of HGW.

3 comments

ruthkerruish wrote:

1 Dec 2019

Shouldn't say this but are you sure? This plant has a large tough woody structure from which these stems grow out. The plant itself must be decades old, also it has a strange smell to the extent that I thought it might be a herb. However I haven't seen a clustered everlasting that is older than say 1-2 years!

BettyDonWood wrote:

1 Dec 2019

Ruth. You are right. I blew photo 2 up a lot and found that the leaves were quite wrong for even the genus Chrysocephalum. What looked like a single leaf was actually either a compound leaf or a whole lot of tiny leaves along a stem. And the flower heads are atypical. It actually looks like a colony to me rather than a single plant. I do not recognise it at all and with the strange smell i agree it might be some sort of culinary or more likely one with folk herbal properties.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

2 Dec 2019

Of mediterranean origin - probably a planting

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Location information

Coordinates 149.098093 -35.338618
Altitude 610.3m
Maps Hughes Garran Woodland Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
Places Hughes, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
26 Nov 2019 07:00 PM Recorded on
ruthkerruish Recorded by
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Plants Daisies ruthkerruish Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

True In flower
30cm to 1 metre Plant height

Species information

Santolina chamaecyparissus Scientific name
Cotton Lavender Common name
Not Sensitive
Exotic
Minor weed or pest
610.34m Recorded at altitude
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In flower
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