Olearia ilicifolia × O. moschata
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'Olearia ilicifolia × O. moschata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- Olearia mollis Hort., not (Kirk) Ckn
Other taxa in genus
- Olearia arborescens
- Olearia argophylla
- Olearia avicenniifolia
- Olearia chathamica
- Olearia cheesemanii
- Olearia colensoi
- Olearia erubescens
- Olearia frostii
- Olearia furfuracea
- Olearia × haastii
- Olearia ilicifolia
- 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
A small, compact, rounded shrub; leaves elliptic, 1 to 1{1/2} in. long, silvery grey, with wavy margins; flower-heads in corymbs. This is the olearia cultivated under the name ‘O. mollis’, which properly belongs to the hybrid between O. ilicifolia and O. lacunosa described elsewhere. Journ. R.H.S., Vol. 90, fig. 97, as O. mollis.Although killed or badly damaged during the severe winters of 1961–3, this is reckoned to be one of the hardiest of the olearias.