Overcame limited variations: The South Australian partner in the family business, Topline Plant Company, said the plant was a selected cutting, or clone, taken from Old Man Saltbush and overcame its limited variations such as stunted plants and small leaves.
Search began in 1995: Tamlin, a third generation vegetable grower, began his search for the "perfect saltbush" in 1995. "I was over on the Eyre Peninsula on a farmer's property and I asked if he'd noticed any outstanding plants on his property and he said that he had one and he called it his super bush," he said.
Fast recovery: "He said it was always the first bush to recover in the paddock. I took cuttings for trial work and it just left all our other trial plants for dead. It's a unique plant."
Low foliage: Tamlin said unlike the Eyre's Green Saltbush, ordinary saltbush tended to develop almost like a tree with a lot of wood at the base and foliage up too high for the stock to reach.
The Land, 13/7/2006, p. 51
Source: Erisk Net
