Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, west of Kimba, SA

Shrub. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, west of Kimba, SA

Common Name

Showy Daisy Bush, Burrbunga

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Shrub to 2m tall.  Leaves scattered up the stems, 0.3-2.5cm long, 1-7mm wide, flat to linear, upper surface sparsely hairy, lower surface hairy, edges rolled downwards and sometimes toothed.  Flowers with 8-25 white (rarely mauve) ‘petals’ and yellow centres. Flower heads bell-shaped to cylindrical, at the ends of the braches, solitary or in open clusters of 2-3.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 642

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