Scientific Name: Cassinia trinerva

Common Name: veined dollybush

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Asteraceae

Form Description: Tall shrub or small tree.

Height (m): 4 – 7

Flowers: White heads, numerous in dense clusters which spread past the leaves. Florets 3-8.

Fruit: Downy achene – pappus-bristles slender.

Municipality
Break O’DayCentral HighlandsDorsetFlindersGlamorgan-Spring BayHuon ValleyLauncestonTasman
Plant Communities
Wet Eucalypt Forest
Habitat Notes

Local at the margins of wet sclerophyll forest in the north-east of the state.

Site Tolerance

Moist

Soil Tolerance

Fertile, Loam, Well-drained

General Notes

Useful for providing quick low-level shelter (up to 3m) in mixed species windbreaks while slow growing species are established. Bird attracting. May provide food for birds such as parrots.

Propagation Calendar

  • Flowering Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Seed Collecting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Sowing Month
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  • Cutting Month
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Propagation Method
Impractical Propagation material is too difficult to collect or conditions for propagation or cultivation are too specialized.

Seed Information

Seed Treatment Method

Standard Scatter seed thinly on to damp potting mix. Hold seed in place by covering with more potting mix to approximately the depth of the seed size.

Seed Storage Life

Short

Germination Time

2-3 weeks