Family | Asteraceae |
Description | Small to medium rounded shrub |
Flowering time | Summer-Autumn |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | A range of heath, woodland and dry sclerophyl forest communities in NSW and south-eastern Qld., including Western Slopes Grassy Woodland and Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll forests dominated by white box. |
Soil types | A range of soil types from richer volcanics to sandy loams. On lighetr soils tends to grow in more moist and sheltered areas. |
Values/uses | |
-habitat values | Important food plant for butterflies and beetles. Often dominates the understorey. |
-amenity/ornamental values | An attractive shrub, spectacular in flower. Foliage handsome and fresh green colour. Long lived. |
-economic/functional values | Should be considered more as a revegetation species for understorey diversification. Successfully used in some mine revegetation direct seeding trials. See: http://www.acarp.com.au/abstracts.aspx?repId=C7010 |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | high |
-compaction | low |
-waterlogging | low |
-shade | high |
-minimum temperature | -5 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 2400 |
-viability period | not known |
-dormancy | not known |
-treatment | Seed germination in the genus Olearia not widely studied. Results vary markedly from very high to very low germination percentages. Shallow sowing recommended and smoke treatment may improve germination. |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | not known |
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