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Kerosene Bush

Ozothamnus cupressoides

Kerosene Bush
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY 3.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
Victoria

About

Ozothamnus cupressoides is an aromatic shrub species, endemic to Australia. Common names include scaly everlasting, lattice everlasting or kerosene bush. It grows to between 0.5 and 1 metre in height and has white-tomentose branchlets. The scale-like leaves are 1 to 3 mm long and 0.5 to 1 mm wide. These are green on the upper surface, and white tomentose below. The flower heads appear in dense clusters in summer and autumn The species occurs in boggy sites and subalpine heathland in New South Wales and Victoria. It was first formally described in 2010 in the journal Muelleria.

Other Ozothamnus plants

Helichrysum lanceolatum · Alpine Everlasting · Ozothamnus antennaria · Ozothamnus costatifructus · Wedge Leaf Everlasting · Riceflower · Ozothamnus expansifolius · Tree Everlasting · Ozothamnus floribundus · Kerosene Bush · Kerosene Weed · Scaly-leaved everlasting

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ozothamnus cupressoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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