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Gidgee Fuchsia Bush

Eremophila dalyana

Gidgee Fuchsia Bush
Photo: Euan Moore, CC BY 3.0 au

Eremophila dalyana is a broom-like desert shrub or small tree from arid central Australia, grown for its pink to white tubular flowers. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and very little water once established.

Family
Scrophulariaceae (Scrophulari family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out fully between waterings; overwatering is the main cause of failure.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, very free-draining soil; add grit or sand to potting mixes.
Temperature
15–35 °C; tolerates heat well and light frost, protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Eremophila dalyana, commonly known as gidgee fuchsia bush, desert fuchsia or ilpengk by Alyawarre people in the Utopia homeland in Central Australia, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to an area of central Australia. It is a broom-like shrub or small tree with thin leaves and pale pink to white flowers. It is found in south-western Queensland, the extreme north east of South Australia and in a small area in the Northern Territory.

Where it grows

Eremophila dalyana occurs in south-western Queensland and the extreme north east of South Australia. There is also a disjunct population in the south-eastern Northern Territory. It usually grows in sandy soil in mulga and gidgee communities.

Other Eremophila plants

Emu Bush · Diocirea acutifolia · Diocirea microphylla · Diocirea ternata · Diocirea violacea · Emu Bush · Eremophila abietina · Eremophila accrescens · Eremophila acrida · Eremophila adenotricha · Eremophila alatisepala · Narrow Leaved Emu Bush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eremophila dalyana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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