Tetradymia comosa

Tetradymia comosa is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, known by the common name hairy horsebrush.

Tetradymia comosa is a whitish woolly shrub growing 30 centimetres (12 in) to over 1 metre (3.3 ft) tall.

The leaves are lance-shaped and up to 6 centimeters long, becoming rigid as they age, sometimes with their tips hardening to spines.

The inflorescence bears three to six flower heads which are each enveloped in five or six thick phyllaries coated in white woolly hairs.

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