Botanical name Decaspermum humile
A common name Silky Myrtle
Seedling
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Young plant
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Juvenile
Reasonably mature
Notice the silky hairs even on some of the green leaves in the bottom right hand corner. The shoots and the hairiness of some adult leaves make them quite distinctive even if you find the leaves otherwise a little hard to differentiate from some other species.
This young vigorous plant is on a drier slope a little way above our internal creek, exposed on the northerly fence line. There is a grove of smaller and larger specimens on a very steep slope overlooking Mooral Creek, the creek that is.
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