Cotton Lavender at Hughes, ACT
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.
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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
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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