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Whipcord with ascending and arching-tipped branches, bushy and flat-topped, usually to about 60cm high and wider, but said to sometimes exceed 1m First season stems 1.5-2mm wide, slightly tetragonous. Leaves 1-1.5mm long, triangular, connate for one third, bronze-yellow to ochre when young, aging olive-green, concave-convex and glossy. Flowers white, up to ten near the stem tips in early summer, freely produced once the plants are a few years old. South Island, in the mountains of West Nelson. H.o. James Stirling, is lower-growing and has a slightly brighter, more yellow hue overall. An especially popular foliage plant H. ochracea is frequently mistaken for H. armstrongii despite the obvious differences of habit and colour and the freely produced flowers.
a, H. lavaudiana; b, H. lycopodioides; c, H. ochracea; d, H. pinguifolia; e, H. salicornioides; f, H. subalpina;