Shawia albida
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'Shawia albida' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Olearia albida (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
A shrub or tree to 15 ft high, resembling Shawia avicenniifolia, but with slightly undulate leaves, shorter flower-stalks, and flower-heads with three to ten ray-florets. Salmon, New Zealand Flowers and Plants in Colour, t. 126; Allan, Flora of New Zealand.
Confined to the North Island of New Zealand, in coastal forests. Not known to be in cultivation in the British Isles except at Tresco Abbey in the Isles of Scilly.
var. angulata (Kirk) Allan, discussed by Clarke (1988), has been restored to species rank in Olearia (Olearia angulata Kirk).