#daisy-bush

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#3497 - Olearia rudis - Azure Daisy-Bush 

An attractive shrub native to WA, and the region of the SA/NSW/Victorian border. Described as 'Aromatic and frequently glutinous', it grows around rocky outcrops and boulders in calcareous sandy or gravelly lateritic soils - in this case, the latter.

Foxes Lair, Narrogin.

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#3185 - Olearia muelleri - Mueller's Daisy-Bush

AKA Goldfields daisy. Named in 1853 for Ferdinand von Mueller, a German-Australian physician, geographer, and a botanist, who was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria, and later became director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne and founder of the National Herbarium there.

On the small side for an Olearia, which are more commonly known as Tree-daisies for a reason.

Widespread in mallee and spinifex habitat in WA, and across southern Australia to the SW corner of NSW.

GSB2024, Wongan Hills - Dingo Rock Inselberg