Family: Asteraceae
Plant: An erect shrub up to 1.5m high with yellowish stems.
Flowers: Inflorescence is a dense corymb 2-10cm diameter. The flowers are small, tubular and cream to pale yellow. Each flower is surrounded by a silver-white bract.
Flowering: October-November.
Fruit: A hairy achene under 1mm long.
Leaves: Ovate to elliptic, stalkless, often toothed 1-2.5cm long and 3-6mm wide with a down-turned tip. They are glossy and dark green above, white and felt covered below. The leaves are stiff, sticky and aromatic with toothed margins – especially towards the tip.
Habitat: Dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Cream flower heads. Sticky stalkless dark green leaves that are white and felt covered on the underside.
Name:
Cassinia After the French botanist Count Henri Cassini.
denticulata From Latin dens = tooth, the diminutive culus and atus = like (referring to the finely-toothed margins of its leaves).
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Cream, Yellow |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4 |
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Flowering Month |
10, 11 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
White |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Short |
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Margins |
Entire, Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Aromatic, Hairy, |
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Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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