Help with ID of NZ native flowering shrub

zak410, Feb 23, 9:04pm
Lots of this around here, Northland, at the moment.

http://iforce.co.nz/i/qhgmk21o.wws.jpg

maclad, Feb 23, 9:13pm
Looks like Rangiora but it is one of the Brachyglottis family

maclad, Feb 23, 9:35pm
I have taken another look and had a rethink and it maybe an Olearia but I do not know which one.

zak410, Feb 23, 9:42pm
Thanks for that, looks very likely;
shame my photo is so bad, I'll bring a small sample next time there and confirm with a book, thanks makes it easier with a name.

maclad, Feb 23, 9:51pm
All good just hope I'm not leading you astray. Good luck.

dibble35, Feb 24, 12:30am
Brachiglottis isn't it. assuming the leaves near it are the same plant

ro42, Feb 24, 2:02am
I think it's supplejack. The supplejack in my garden is often mistaken for a shrub! Have a look here. http://www.visitzealandia.com/species-member/supplejack/

zak410, Feb 24, 2:33am
#7- very similar flowers as they're more like star than daisies? but different leaves I think.
Also, there are a few of the same 'shrubs' in the same area;
will check better next time.

ro42, Feb 24, 3:03am
Have a look next time - the leaves look like supplejack too to me. It's a vine (sort-of) but tends to grow up into other plants then develop a bushy 'head' with leaves and flowers, so it looks like it's part of the plant it's grown among.

lemming2, Feb 24, 3:48pm
I think Akeake, Olieria avicenniaefolia. are the leaves furry underneath?

zak410, Feb 24, 10:10pm
Very similar flowers again but leaves are smooth and silvery underneath.
http://iforce.co.nz/i/edago5lm.245.jpg Also, not a vine but a shrub, trunk and branches about 3m tall max. another (not very good) photo of the flowers: http://iforce.co.nz/i/4xzm2gak.hgr.jpg

ro42, Feb 25, 1:37am

antoniab, May 19, 2:51pm
Leaves look like olearia rani or arborscens but their flowers have more petals