Identify daisy in NZ

[Bev Olson]

I live in New Zealand. On our block of land we have pine forest and native bush.
The pines will be mature in a few years so I am thinking about how to minimizes the impact on the natural forest when we log the pines.

We have placed a little hut on the property and by spending more time there I am getting to know and appreciate the native trees, birds and waterways.

By identifying the different plants and birds I can learn more about them and protect them.
 
I cant find this daisy in the reference books I have looked at.
The leaves have white woolly undersides so I suppose it is Celmisia something.

Can anyone tell me the name of it?

[mark smyth]

Hi Bev, it looks like a Helichrysum

[Bev Olson]

Wow that was quick.
Thanks Mark I will go and look that up
Bev

[Maggi Young]

Heloo Bev, welcome to the Forum.

I think that is a helichrysum, too. there are quite a few native New Zealand Helichrysum but that doesn't mean to say that your  is one of them.... there are doubtless quite a few naturalised types as well, escappess from gardens ........ one of the  Kiwis from the Forum should be able to help you out  to a closer ID.

[Bev Olson]

The Forum is wonderful congratulations. Thank you for all the work to get it going.

[Paul T]

Bev,

I'm not sure about whether they're in New Zealand of not, but it could also be a Rhodanthe?  They're another of the paper daisy ilk.  Very pretty, whatever it is.

[Bev Olson]

Paul
Thanks.

Yes it is la lovely thing.

Where it grows currently will be destroyed by logging eventually.
I have managed to dig one plant up (in flower ) and transplant it on a bank near to our hut; to save it.
It is still alive after 3 weeks with no rain, but in a very shady place.

And today it is cooler and raining again so that will help.

There is a lot of Native Bush on high ridges on our  property. Places and plants I havn't met yet because of the steepness and the tangle of wet rain forest.

About Rhodanthe. In my library book J.T.Salmon Native New Zealand Flowering Plants there is no mention of it so I don't know if we have them in NZ.

I got an email from Stuart Murray suggesting the daisy could be Anaphaloides bellidioides, previously known as Helichrysum bellidiodes.
But going by my library book that would have leaves only 5-6mm and my plant's leaves are much bigger.

In the same book there is a photo that looks like it.
Cotton daisy/cotton plant,tikumu,Celmisia spectabilis.
But again my daisy has multiple flower heads on the stem -so that would rule it out wouldn't it?

It is fun searching around and meeting you so it is all good.

[Maggi Young]

Anaphaloides bellidioides previously known as Helichrysum bellidiodes  is a mat forming, creeping plant .... your looks to be pretty tall....??

[Bev Olson]

Photo is out of focus but might help.

Thanks
Bev

[t00lie]

Hello Bev

Welcome to this wonderful forum.

Whereabouts in God's Own do you live ?.

Your plant has the look of Anaphalioides trinervis which used to be called ,(Helichrysum), trinervis.The long leaves being the identifying feature when compared with Anaphalioides bellidioides.

Cheers Dave.

[Bev Olson]

Dave
Thanks

I live in Hokitika.

The daisy is on our land at Totara Valley.
We planted the pines 18yrs ago and my hubby always wanted to put a hut down there.
I couldn't see why but recently we have put The Ilala there (see photo of hut.)

So peaceful.
We have discovered galleries of glo-worms in the mossy banks of the old gravel pits (gravel was taken from there for the Hokitika airport)
The Tuis, Wekas and Pigeons are plentiful so am replanting natives for them and the future.

No shortage of sandflies either.

Bev

[Bev Olson]

Sandfly repellant

[Bev Olson]

Yes that's it
Thank you very much

http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/publications/newsletters/tetaiao/TeTaiaoIssue4.pdf

[Maggi Young]

Loving the sandfly repellant, Bev! Desperate times call for desperate measures, eh?

On Sunday I was told that a tiny amount of olive oil, put on a pad and smeared over all exposed skin, and hairlines  is a great protector against midgie bites
(the scourge of some Scottish summer walks) and I wonder if it is worth trying against the sandflies, too?
Seems so simple and if the worst that can happen to you is to get a little oily, then it would be worth it, I suppose.  

[Bev Olson]

I was tormented by midgees in Scotland but like our sandflies you can almost get used to it.

I often think how awful the rain and the sandflies would've been for pioneer settlers promised a new land here.
There is a hidden cemetery that grimly witnesses a failed settlement from an 1875 landing.
Arawata cemetry at Jacksons Bay.
To make it even worse I think a supply ship failed to arrive.