Olearia furfuracea (A. Rich.) Hook. f.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Olearia furfuracea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/olearia/olearia-furfuracea/). Accessed 2024-11-02.

Genus

Synonyms

  • Aster furfuraceus A. Rich.
  • Eurybia furfuracea (A. Rich.) DC.

Glossary

alternate
Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.
apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
appressed
Lying flat against an object.
axillary
Situated in an axil.
entire
With an unbroken margin.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
lustrous
Smooth and shiny.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
undulate
Wavy.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Olearia furfuracea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/olearia/olearia-furfuracea/). Accessed 2024-11-02.

An evergreen shrub of bushy habit, sometimes a small tree up to 20 ft high; young shoots covered with a whitish soft down, which persists to the second year and becomes brown. Leaves alternate, very leathery, mostly ovate or inclined to oblong, abruptly pointed or blunt at the apex, rounded or broadly tapered and often unequal at the base, margins undulate, entire or remotely and shallowly toothed, 2 to 4 in. long, 112 to 212 in. wide, glabrous and dark glossy green above, lustrous beneath with a closely appressed down; leaf-stalk 12 to 1 in. long. Flower-heads numerously produced in axillary, much-branched corymbs 3 to 5 in. wide, the main-stalk up to 6 or 8 in. long. Each head is 13 to 12 in. wide, carrying two to five ray-florets and three to seven disk-florets, the former white, oblong, 18 to 14 in. long; the latter yellow. March and April. Salmon, New Zealand Flowers and Plants in Colour, t. 108.

Native of the North Island, New Zealand. In its shining green foliage – in size and colouring rather like that of a Portugal laurel, only stiffer and shining grey-white beneath – this olearia is quite handsome, and its flowers are abundant enough to give a pleasing effect. It survives cold winters in a sheltered spot at Kew, but is, of course, happier farther south and west. Among cultivated olearias it comes nearest to O. arborescens, but that species has thinner, less leathery leaves, whose margins are usually more conspicuously wavy and toothed and whose flowers each carry fifteen to twenty disk-florets.


O furfuracea × O.

Synonyms
paniculata

Tree with elliptic, entire, blunt, wavy-margined leaves up to 3 in. long and 1{1/4} in. wide, with the dark midrib of O. furfuracea. Flower-heads in terminal corymbs, sweetly fragrant, white, each composed of two disk-florets. Ray-florets absent.A hybrid of unknown origin, in cultivation at Tresco Abbey in the Isles of Scilly.

O pachyphylla Cheesem

A shrub up to 10 ft high. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, leathery, 3 to 5 in. long, 2 to 2{1/2} in. wide, without purple midrib. Involucral bracts very numerous (thirty-five or more) in four or five series. Salmon, New Zealand Flowers and Plants in Colour, t. 105.Native of the North Island of New Zealand.