Olearia elliptica
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Olearia elliptica, commonly known as the sticky daisy bush, is a shrub in the Asteraceae
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

 family native to New South Wales and Queensland in eastern Australia. It was named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1836.
It grows as a shrub to 2 m (7 ft) high.The leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, and measure 2–11.5 cm (0.8-4.5 in) long and 0.5–3.8 cm wide. The flowerheads appear from November to May and are arranged in corymbs. The individual flowerheads are 1.1 to 2.6 cm in diameter, with 8 to 23 white ray florets and 8 to 30 yellow disc florets.

The range is from Berry northwards along central and eastern New South Wales to the Queensland border. It is found in areas of annual rainfall of over 900 mm in the Sydney Basin.
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