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Posted by jamus_s SA Australia (My Page) on Thu, Apr 20, 06 at 6:00
| Hi guys, I'm trying to ID this shrub. I think it's an aussie native but not certain. Foliage is pubescent, with a silvery sheen and the whole plant has a strong fruity fragrance when brushed. Excuse the poor photos, taken indoors at night...
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| From the flower it looks like a Goodenia. The leaves looks a bit like Goodenia ovata but seem to be a lot smaller than we normally get over here. Unless the shoot you have plucked just contains young and small leaves or Goodenia ovata has a different foliage form to those around Melbourne. |
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| Thanks Greg, I looked it up and I think you're right. The description fits, perhaps it is a cultivar bred to be more shrubby? |
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| I agree that it's Goodenia ovata. This species is more variable than you may realize. In the Sydney district and Blue Mountains it is an erect to sprawling shrub which in moist forest country can get as much as 2 m tall. But as soon as you get into exposed coastal locations you start getting much lower-growing versions. I have collected cuttings from completely prostrate plants on headlands of the NSW central coast, and they remained prostrate in cultivation. Also, I remember a trip I did years ago along Victoria's Great Ocean Road, where I saw it frequently on the ocean cliffs as very compact plants with wider, more succulent, and more crowded leaves than the forest plants: at least that is my memory of them. Some of the variations have found their way into native plant nurseries. |
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