Family Index

Scientific Name

Xanthosia pilosa

Family Name

APIACEAE (UMBELLIFERAE)

Common Name

Woolly Crossherb

Status

Height

30-60cm

Flowers

Small, pale green to cream, in umbels.

Fruit

Form

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.

Municipalities

Break O'Day; Burnie; Central Coast; Central Highlands; Circular Head; Clarence; Devonport; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Kentish; Kingborough; Latrobe; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Tamar

Communities

Habitat Notes

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

Site Tolerance

Frost Tolerance

Soil Tolerance

General Notes

Usually grown from cuttings, very difficult to grow from seed. Suitable below powerlines.

Propagation Details

Propagation Calendar

Flowering Months

Jan

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Mar

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May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Seed Collecting Months

Jan

Feb

Mar

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May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Sowing Months

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Cutting Months

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Seed Treatment Method

Seed Storage Life

Viable Seeds Per Gram

Seed Treatment Notes

Germination Time

Suitable for Direct Seeding

Cuttings

Expected Time to Take Root

Expected Time to Plant Out

Propagation by Division N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.

Yes

Cutting Notes