Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

Description: Helichrysum elatum 'Helping Hand', Taken: 13 December 2018, [HERBARIUM SPECIMEN] ACRA NO: Acc 910 Copyright : Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR) holds copyright
Photographer: Palmer, R.

Helichrysum elatum 'Helping Hand'

File Number

910

ACRA Field Book Number

910

Registration Date

12/08/2002

Application Received

01/01/2000

Family

Asteraceae

Cultivar Name

Helichrysum elatum 'Helping Hand'

Origin

Helichrysum 'Helping Hand' is a form of Helichrysum elatum. The name is in recognition of the work done by volunteers in public institutions around Australia and it will be first released commercially in the International Year of the Volunteer 2001. It is one of several compact forms of the species growing in the ranges along the NSW and Queensland border and around Jervis Bay on the NSW south coast (see diagnosis below). The applicant is the Australian National Botanic Gardens. The form has been in cultivation at ANBG since 1996. Specimen received by ACRA September 2000.syn. Helichrysum aff. elatum (Mount Warning form)[see note on genus name <#genus> below]

Characteristics

Shrub ca. 100x100cm. Upper branches tomentose. Leaves lanceolate, 5-7cm long x 2-3cm wide; apex acute/acuminate; margins entire; upper leaf surface grey green, tomentose; lower surface grey green/whitish, tomentose; leaf veins on upper surface obscured by tomentum. Flower bracts glossy white, disc yellow. Flower head diameter ca. 4cm. Inflorescences in terminal leafy corymbs of up to 6 heads. Outer involucral bracts to 20mm long, reducing in size outwards. Inner involucral bracts lacerate. (Note: The description and diagnosis have been compiled from cultivated plants). Diagnosis: The primary distinguishing features from the other compact forms of H. elatum are the leaf upper surface tomentum and lack of visible veins, the larger head diameter and longer bract laminas.

Cultivation

Plant in well drained soil and allow the foliage to dry between watering. Susceptible to Verticillium and soil borne fungi and bud and leaf caterpillars.

Publication

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (2003), Australian Native Plants: cultivation, use in landscaping and propagation Edn. 5: 601

Colour Coding

(RHS 1995)Leaf upper surface 191A-BLeaf lower surface 191DInvolucral bracts glossy white (no RHS equivalent)

Propagation

Propagate by cutting or from seed (it grows true to type). Treat as a biennial.

Applicant Name

ANBG,Canberra.

Uses

As part of a mass planting or mixed in a shrubbery, or as a feature plant.

Availability

Unknown

ANBG Accession Numbers

ACC910; ACRA910.

NSL ID

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