Three-veined Cassinia at Black Range, NSW
Identification history
| Unidentified | 8 Jul 2020 | StephH |
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A number of these soft-leafed plants growing on hard bare slopes. The leaves have a herbaceous scent when crushed. All have been heavily pruned by animals.
3 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
9 Jul 2020
Pretty cinfident of this, though these plants are atypical due to being in a harsher environment than their normal gully hangout, plus the leaves get smaller when the animals have been munching on them. The strong smell should be sort of a menthol/curry cross if it is C. trinerva.
StephH
wrote:
9 Jul 2020
Thanks again. I did wonder about cassinia but they're so far away from our big cassinia grove that I thought it unlikely. It's a pretty unusual place to find them but, as they're on one of the main animal tracks, perhaps seeds are transported in that way to this spot.
JackieMiles
wrote:
9 Jul 2020
Yeah, even though daisy seeds are mostly wind transported in theory, or at least adapted for that with plumes etc, I'm convinced animals move them around too. We more often see fireweed and fleabane along animal pads in our forest than just any old where.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.849381-36.730964
- Places Black Range, NSW
Sighting information
Additional information
- 30cm to 1 metre Plant height
Species information
- Cassinia trinerva Scientific name
- Three-veined Cassinia Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 369.21m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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In flower
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