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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
This is believed to be Eremophila alternifolia x maculata, commonly known as Wildberry. A cross between Eremophila alternifolia and Eremophila maculata.
The Eremophila alternifolia, commonly known as Narrow-leaved Poverty Bush or Emu Bush, is a variable shrub in leaf shape and flower colour. The leaves are linear-terete, measuring between 2–5.5 cm long and 1–1.5 cm wide.
Eremophila maculata, also known as Spotted Emu Bush or Spotted Fuchsia-Bush is considered the most naturally widespread of the genus, as well as being one of the most cultivated Eremophila. Usually densely branched shrub, it also has variable leaf shape and flower colour. The leaves are linear to oblanceolate, measuring 1–4 cm long and 2–14 mm wide. The apex acute, margins entire, glabrous. The inner part of the flower is usually spotted.
The hybrid/cultivar displayed here display the foliage of E. maculata.
The hybrid/cultivar is popular with insects including the introduced Apis mellifera (European Honey Bee). Check out more images of the Apis mellifera bee on Eremophila alternifolia x maculata.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Charophyta
- Class: Equisetopsida
- Subclass: Magnoliidae
- Superorder: Asteranae
- Order: Lamiales
- Family: Scrophulariaceae
- Genus: Eremophila
- Species:
- Eremophila alternifolia
- Eremophila maculata
- Eremophila alternifolia x maculata
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Karlee Foster for ID, member of Alice Springs Field Naturalists Club, Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1379683398719247
- Wildflowers & Plants of Inland Australia, author Anne Urban, ISBN 0-646-41688-X, E. alternifolia (Scented emu bush, Narrow-leafed fuchsia bush), p188, https://ausemade.com.au/publications/
- Wildflowers & Plants of Inland Australia, author Anne Urban, ISBN 0-646-41688-X, E. maculata (Spotted fuchsia), p186-188, https://ausemade.com.au/publications/
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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