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Scientific Name
Parietaria debilis
Family Name
URTICACEAE
Common Name
Shade Pellitory
Status
Rare
Height
Flowers
Crowded and borne in the leaf axils, on twin stems with 3 flowers.
Fruit
Form
Slender annual herb with branches 10-30cm long, and succulent leaves on slender stalks.
Municipalities
Break O'Day; Brighton; Burnie; Dorset; Flinders Island; Huon Valley; King Island; Latrobe; Launceston
Communities
Habitat Notes
Among muttonbird rookeries, in the salt spray zone on cliffs and rocks, on grazed pasture and grassland and on sand dunes in Northern Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands.
Site Tolerance
Frost Tolerance
Soil Tolerance
General Notes
Probably propagated from seed. Tolerant of salt spray. Suitable below powerlines.
Propagation Details
Propagation Calendar
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Seed Information
Seed Collection
Glossy, smooth, flattened fruits, 1.5mm long.
Seed Treatment Method
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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.
Cutting Notes
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