Blanket Leaf

Bedfordia arborescens

A tall shrub to 7 m high with large, drooping, soft lanceolate leaves with loose clusters of small yellow daisy heads in late spring and early summer.

Photographer - Bruce Fuhrer		Photographer - Ross Field

It is a common component of the wet sclerophyll forests, particularly in fern gullies and on rainforest margins.

This plant is also known as 'Bushman's Dunny Paper' for the quality of its leaves.