Scientific Name: Xanthosia pilosa

Common Name: woolly crossherb

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Apiaceae

Form Description: Small, softly hairy shrub with slender branches and alternate, 3-lobed leaves. Leaves dark green on the upper surface and white or yellow with brown hairs on the lower surface.

Height (m): 0.3 – 0.6

Flowers: Small, pale green to cream, in umbels.

Fruit: Ribbed mericarp

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral CoastCentral HighlandsCircular HeadClarenceDevonportDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayKentishKingboroughLatrobeMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsTasmanWaratah-WynyardWest Tamar
Plant Communities
No data available for this species
Habitat Notes

Widespread and frequent in heaths, sandy soils and open eucalypt forests.

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Cuttings

Seed Information

Cutting & Division Information

Propagate by semi-hard cuttings in summer.