Olearia cheesemanii
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Olearia cheesemanii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- O. arborescens var. angustifolia Cheesem.
- O. cunninghamii Hort., not (Hook. f.) Hook. f.
- O. rani Hort., not (A. Cunn.) Druce
Infraspecifics
Other taxa in genus
- Olearia arborescens
- Olearia argophylla
- Olearia avicenniifolia
- Olearia chathamica
- Olearia colensoi
- Olearia erubescens
- Olearia frostii
- Olearia furfuracea
- Olearia × haastii
- Olearia ilicifolia
- Olearia ilicifolia × O. moschata
- Olearia insignis
- Olearia lacunosa
- Olearia ledifolia
- Olearia macrodonta
- Olearia × mollis
- Olearia moschata
- Olearia nummulariifolia
- Olearia odorata
- Olearia paniculata
- Olearia phlogopappa
- Olearia ramulosa
- Olearia rotundifolia
- Olearia × scilloniensis
- Olearia semidentata
- Olearia solandri
- Olearia traversii
- Olearia virgata
An evergreen shrub up to 12 ft high; young shoots covered with a dense, buff down. Leaves alternate, slightly leathery, elliptic to lanceolate, usually pointed, tapered at the base, indistinctly wavy at the margins, 2 to 31⁄2 in. long, 1⁄2 to 11⁄4 in. wide, dark green above with appressed white hairs when young, buff or silvery below with fine very closely appressed down; stalks about 1⁄2 in. long. Flower-heads in corymbs, arising from the uppermost leaf-axils, forming large clusters, on slender densely downy stalks. Ray-florets white. Journ. R.H.S., Vol. 90, fig. 98, as O. rani; Salmon, New Zealand Flowers and Plants in Colour, t. 283.
A native of New Zealand. A very floriferous shrub, flowering in April and May, tolerant of wind and site, and as hardy as O. avicenniifolia; during the severe winter of 1961–2, it was only slightly injured in a west border at Kew and not injured at all at Knightshayes Court near Tiverton in Devon.
O capillaris Buchan.
Synonyms
O. arborescens var. capillaris (Buchan.) Kirk