Einadia hastata

Berry Saltbush at Hackett, ACT

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Identification history

Einadia hastata	31 Dec 2022	Tapirlord
Einadia nutans	31 Dec 2022	waltraud
Unidentified	30 Dec 2022	Avery

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Growing at the base of a tree (should have taken a picture from a greater distance to illustrate this, but didn't). I *think* it was in flower. OK added some pictures illustrating further colonies right next to the first one ... I seem to have failed to record a picture of that showing that it does not climb the tree, but just sits at the base.

7 comments

waltraud wrote:

31 Dec 2022

Avery this is a Creeping Saltbush. Best wishes for happy new year. Waltraud

Avery wrote:

31 Dec 2022

Thanks! This looks like it might be good groundcover for Canberra, and is commercially available. Happy New Year!

Tapirlord wrote:

31 Dec 2022

I'm thinking this looks a lot more like E.hastata, its a much bulkier plant.

waltraud wrote:

1 Jan 2023

Tapirlord, perhaps you are right - i do have problems telling them apart from photos.
Avery, both Einadia hastata and E nutans are good ground cover; we frequently encounter them particularly E. nutans when we removed cleavers under trees. They are perennial plants with a woody root and grow happily in the shade of trees; they love wet and may shrink in drought but will recover. La Ninas were good for them; however, bigger and faster-growing plants such as Cleavers were competing.
Happy new year to you both.
w

Avery wrote:

1 Jan 2023

Thanks! I'll try to get some more pictures of it sometime in the coming week.

Avery wrote:

12 Jan 2023

Tried to add another picture, but can't find it now, maybe I failed somehow. But the edit to the user note saying I added 'some pictures' now seems inalterable.

Avery wrote:

9 Mar 2023

There are more colonies scattered around for maybe 50m uphill to the SE (did not make a serious attempt to ascertain the area)

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