Detail
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Olearia teretifolia
Toothed Daisy-bush
Notes

Uses: A highly ornamental but hardy foliage plant. Plant singly for contrast or grouped as an informal hedge, wind-break or low screen in wider roadside verges, median strips, parks and reserves. Requires well-drained soils and responds to pruning.
Profuse flowering attracts birds and native insects.

This plant is indigenous to the following botanical regions of South Australia.


:EP: Eyre Peninsula
:SL: Southern Lofty
:KI: Kangaroo Island
:SE: South Eastern
 
For detail on these regions refer to the user guide.

  • Height 0.5-2m
  • Spread 0.6-1.5m
  • Position
    • position-fullsun Full Sun
  • Family Asteraceae
  • Botanical Name Olearia teretifolia
  • Common Name Toothed Daisy-bush
  • Origin SA, Vic
  • Habit Compact, Dense, Spreading
  • Landscape Coastal footslopes, Footslopes, Hills, Plains, 2nd line coast
  • Soil Texture Clay, Loam, Sand
  • pH Acidic, Alkaline, Neutral
  • Tolerates Moderate frost
  • Supplementary Watering Moderate
  • Flower Colour White
  • Flowering Time Summer, Winter
  • Flower Type Daisy
  • Purpose Habitat, Ornamental, Screen, Hedge
  • Evergreen/Deciduous Evergreen
  • Form Medium Shrub (Usually between 1.2m & 3.6m)