Santolina chamaecyparissus

Cotton Lavender at Hughes, ACT

Santolina chamaecyparissus at Hughes, ACT - 26 Nov 2019
Santolina chamaecyparissus at Hughes, ACT - 26 Nov 2019
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Identification history

Santolina chamaecyparissus 1 Dec 2019 MichaelMulvaney
Chrysocephalum semipapposum 30 Nov 2019 BettyDonWood
Unidentified 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.
   2 Dec 2019
Of mediterranean origin - probably a planting

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  • 26 Nov 2019 07:00 PM Recorded on
  • ruthkerruish Recorded by

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  • True In flower
  • 30cm to 1 metre Plant height

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