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

An native Australian ptilotus, Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei) grows primarily in the desert and dry shrubland biome(s). Can be seen in the Olive Pink Botanic Garden.

Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei), Olive Pink Botanic Garden NT
Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei), Olive Pink Botanic Garden NT
Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei), Olive Pink Botanic Garden NT
Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei), Olive Pink Botanic Garden NT
Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei), Olive Pink Botanic Garden NT
Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei), Olive Pink Botanic Garden NT

Check out our general Flora section on the Ptilotus.


  • Scientific classification
  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Class: Equisetopsida
  • Subclass: Magnoliidae
  • Superorder: Caryophyllanae
  • Order: Caryophyllales
  • Family: Amaranthaceae
  • Genus: Ptilotus
  • Species: Ptilotus whitei

Footnote & References

  1. Ptilotus whitei, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2918050

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

Olive Pink Botanic GardenOPBG Fauna OPBG Flora