Common mountain daisy
StarCelmisia spectabilis
Safety at a glance
No rule in our tables for this herb: pregnancy, breastfeeding, incompatible pairs (十八反 / 十九畏), herb–drug, dose ceiling. This is not a safety clearance.
Not graded — No toxicity grade is recorded. Most herbs in the catalogue carry none.
Traditionally used for
- Skin
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
Maori peeled the dense woolly tomentum from the underside of Celmisia spectabilis leaves to make a waterproof, insulating underlay for rain capes and clothing; the down was also used as a tobacco substitute and applied as a dressing for wounds (Riley, Maori Healing and Herbal, 1994).
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Botanical Description
Celmisia spectabilis, the common or cotton mountain daisy (Maori puharetaiko), is a tufted perennial herb in the family Asteraceae, endemic to New Zealand. It forms clumps of stiff, leathery, lance-shaped leaves that are glossy dark green above and densely clothed beneath in a thick, felted layer of white to buff woolly hairs (tomentum), giving the plant its 'cotton' name. From the rosettes rise stout, woolly stalks each bearing a single large, showy daisy head with white ray florets surrounding a yellow disc. The fruit is a hairy achene with a pappus of bristles. The species occurs in the mountains of both the North and South Islands, growing in tussock grassland, herbfield and on open subalpine to alpine slopes, where it is one of the most conspicuous and characteristic of the New Zealand mountain daisies.
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