Olearia fragrantissima

Growth: Medium Height Range: 5 Drainage: Very Dry Well Drained Site Conditions: Coastal Exposed Frost Tolerant Heavy Soil Loamy Soil Salty Windy Spread Range: 3 Sunlight: Full Sun Features: Attractive Flowers Attractive foliage Attractive to bees Attractive to Birds Attractive to insects Rare and Endangered Category: Trees Tags: Fragrant, Hedging, Olearia, Rare Plants

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a rare endemic small bushy shrub with many erect reddish-brown divaricating and sweet-smelling small flowers inhabiting coastal areas from Banks Peninsula down the east coast to Invercargill. Naturally distributed from coastal to lower montane areas usually in grey scrub, on forest margins or shrublands. Sometimes on the margins of estuarine or saltmarsh vegetation in places which would be subject to saline water in extremes of tide, also found on gravelly soils often on the margins of steep gullies, gorges and in boulder fields. Last reported in 2017 as being at risk with a partial decline...