Olive Pink Botanic Garden
OPBG FloraBean Tree Bush Hibiscus Bush Plum Caper Bush / Wild Passionfruit Dead Finish Ghost Gum Heart-leaved Frankenia Krichauff Ranges Fuchsia Mulga Needlewood Pink Fire-bush Potato Bush Prickly Wattle Red-Bud Mallee Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei) Sticky Hopbush (Dodonaea viscosa) Sturt’s Desert Rose Tall Saltbush Wild Tomato Wire-Leaf Mistletoe
Found growing along water courses and roadsides, the Bush Hibiscus (Radyera farragei) has a striking looking flower that are a pink, mauve to pale purple in colour. The large trumpet like flowers have 5 petals, with 2 to 3 on very short stems that arise from the bases of the leaves.
The shrub grows between 1 to 2 metres in height and has large leaves.
The leaves are petiolate (the leaf is attached to a stem by a petiole) and sub-orbicular (nearly circular) although sometimes broad-ovate (being wider at the base). The leaf is cordate at the base (being heart shape only at the base of the leaf).
Common name
Bush Hibiscus, Desert Rose Mallow, Desert Mallow, Knobby Hibiscus.
Many thanks to Barb Jim Gilfedder (Alice Springs, NT) for identifying this plant.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Angiosperms
- Clade: Eudicots
- Clade: Rosids
- Order: Malvales
- Family: Malvaceae
- Subfamily: Malvoideae
- Tribe: Hibisceae
- Genus: Radyera
- Species: R. farragei
Footnote & References
- Anne Urban, Wildflowers & Plants of Inland Australia, 2001, Genus Radyera, p119
- Radyera farragei, Plants and fungi of south western NSW, https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/scotia/key/Plants%20and%20Fungi%20of%20south%20western%20NSW/Media/Html/Radyera_farragei.htm
OPBG FloraBean Tree Bush Hibiscus Bush Plum Caper Bush / Wild Passionfruit Dead Finish Ghost Gum Heart-leaved Frankenia Krichauff Ranges Fuchsia Mulga Needlewood Pink Fire-bush Potato Bush Prickly Wattle Red-Bud Mallee Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei) Sticky Hopbush (Dodonaea viscosa) Sturt’s Desert Rose Tall Saltbush Wild Tomato Wire-Leaf Mistletoe