Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Joe McAuliffe, Murray Sunset National Park, Vic

Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Common Name

Splendid Daisy Bush

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Shrub to 1.5m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems or clustered, 0.2-2.6cm long, 1.5-10mm wide, flat, hairless to slightly hairy, slightly sticky, edges turned or rolled down, tips pointed, rounded with a straight point, or 3-5 toothed.  Flowers with 12-24 purple to mauve, occasionally white, 'petals', with yellow centres. Flower heads cylindrical, borne singly at the ends of the branches.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 641

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Olearia~magniflora