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Olearia occidentissima is a small, wind-pruned daisy bush from coastal limestone cliffs in far western Western Australia, growing up to about 20 cm high. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and shelter from strong salt-laden wind to thrive.
Olearia occidentissima is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to the extreme west of Western Australia. It is an erect or prostrate, wind-pruned shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves that are woolly-hairy on the lower surface, and white, daisy-like inflorescences.
This daisy bush grows on shallow soil on coastal limestone cliffs in the Carnarvon and Yalgoo bioregions in the extreme west of Western Australia, including on Dirk Hartog Island and Francois Peron National Park.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Olearia occidentissima by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
