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Olearia Lineata
''Olearia'', most commonly known as daisy-bush, is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae, the largest of the flowering plant families in the world. Olearia are found in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand. The genus includes herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees. The latter are unusual among the Asteraceae and are called tree daisies in New Zealand. All bear the familiar daisy-like composite flowerheads in white, pink, mauve or purple. Description Plants in the genus ''Olearia'' are shrubs of varying sizes, characterised by a composite flower head arrangement with single-row ray florets enclosed by small overlapping bracts arranged in rows. The flower petals are more or less equal in length. The centre of the bi-sexual floret is disc shaped and may be white, yellowish or purplish, generally with 5 lobes. Flower heads may be single or clusters in leaf axils or at the apex of branchlets. Leaves may be smooth, glandular or with a sticky secretion. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olearia Stuartii
''Olearia stuartii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic arid parts of inland Australia. It is compact, spreading shrub or undershrub with lance-shaped leaves and blue to mauve and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences. Description ''Olearia stuartii'' is a compact, sticky, spreading shrub or subshrub that typically grows to a height of , the stems woody and covered with soft hairs. Its leaves are lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long, wide and Sessility (botany), sessile with 2 to 5 pairs of lobes on the edges. The heads or daisy-like Pseudanthium, "flowers" are arranged singly or in groups of up to four on the ends of branches and are Peduncle (botany), pedunculate with a hemispherical Involucral bract, involucre long at the base. Each head has 20 to 50 blue to mauve ray Glossary of botanical terms#floret , florets, the ligule long, surrounding 30 to 70 yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs from June to September a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
