Ozothamnus argophyllus

Ozothamnus argophyllus, commonly known as the silver everlasting or spicy everlasting, is an erect to spreading shrub in the family Asteraceae endemic to south-eastern Australia, occurring in Victoria and Tasmania. It typically grows from 0.5 to 3 metres in height with slender, much-branched stems densely clothed in fine, silvery-white, woolly tomentum that lends the foliage a striking grey-silver appearance. The alternate, sessile leaves are narrow-linear to narrow-oblong, 5 to 25 millimetres long and only 1 to 3 millimetres wide, with revolute margins, the upper surface green and glabrescent and the lower surface densely white-woolly. Small cylindrical flower-heads each containing several creamy-white florets surrounded by papery pale yellow to white involucral bracts are aggregated into dense terminal corymbose panicles produced in spring and summer, releasing a strong aromatic curry-like fragrance when crushed. The fruit is a small ribbed achene bearing a pappus of barbellate bristles. It grows in open forest, heath and rocky slopes.