Olearia coriacea Kirk

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'Olearia coriacea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/olearia/olearia-coriacea/). Accessed 2026-06-15.

Family

Asteraceae

Genus

Olearia

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

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Recommended citation
'Olearia coriacea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/olearia/olearia-coriacea/). Accessed 2026-06-15.

Olearia coriacea at Inverewe, Wester Ross, UK. 3 August 2021. Image John Anderson.

A shrub up to 10 ft high; leaves broadly ovate to suborbicular, 3⁄8 to 3⁄4 in. long, up to 1⁄2 in. wide, very thick and leathery, green above, brownish-white tomentose beneath. Flower-heads corymbose, discoid, one-flowered. Davies, New Zealand Native Plant Studies, t. 115.

A native of the South Island of New Zealand; not known for certain to be in cultivation in the British Isles.

The foliage of Olearia coriacea is quite different from that of O. nummulariifolia, which Bean compared it to. Mount Usher, Wicklow, Ireland. 17 June 2008. Image John Anderson.

Olearia coriacea at Inverewe, Wester Ross, UK. 3 August 2021. Image John Anderson.

Olearia coriacea at the National Botanic Gardens, Kilmacurragh, Wicklow, Ireland. 4 December 2021. Image John Anderson.

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