Scientific Name: Tecticornia arbuscula

Common Name: shrubby glasswort

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Amaranthaceae

Form Description: Erect, woody shrub with green or reddish branches. The stem fuses with leaves to appear segmented.

Height (m): 0.2 – 1.5

Flowers: Minute flowers, often 3 together, arise at upper projecting edge of several segments.

Fruit: Seeds are egg-shaped and 1.5mm long.

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral CoastClarenceDorsetFlindersGlamorgan-Spring BayKing IslandKingboroughLatrobeSorell
Plant Communities
RiparianSaltmarsh
Habitat Notes

Locally abundant in saltmarshes, swamps, estuaries and on low rocky shingly islands which are occasionally inundated. More common in the south.

General Notes

Highly tolerant of salt and moisture.

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
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Cutting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Propagation Method
Seed, Cuttings

Seed Information

Cutting & Division Information

2-3cm long tip cuttings planted in a mixture of peat moss, coarse sand and perlite have been grown successfully.