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Alice Springs FloraAlice Springs Flora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Apple Bush Bougainvillea Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander
The Cattle Bush (Trichodesma zeylanicum) is a fairly widespread plant across Australia, occurring in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales. It is known under various common name including Camel Bush, Northern Bluebell and Water Bush.
A bristly-hairy erect herb or shrub that can grow between 40 cm up to 1.5 metres high. An annual with clusters of pale blue flowers that droop downward. The flower has a protruding stamen surrounding the style, with the anthers end in long bristles, twisted together. The sepals are bristly-hairy, enlarging in fruit. The leaves are narrowly elliptic.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Charophyta
- Class: Equisetopsida
- Subclass: Magnoliidae
- Superorder: Asteranae
- Family: Boraginaceae
- Genus: Trichodesma
- Species: Trichodesma zeylanicum
- Variety:
- Trichodesma zeylanicum var. grandiflorum Randell
- Trichodesma zeylanicum var. latisepaleum F.Muell.
- Trichodesma zeylanicum (Burm.f.) R.Br. var. zeylanicum
Footnote & References
- Trichodesma zeylanicum (Burm.f.) R.Br., Camel Bush, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/7095245
Alice Springs FloraAlice Springs Flora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Apple Bush Bougainvillea Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander
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