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Eremophila decussata

Eremophila decussata
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Scrophulariaceae (Scrophulari family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Drought tolerant
Native range
South Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Eremophila decussata is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is only known from several small, disjunct areas in Western Australia and South Australia. It is small, spreading, silvery-grey shrub with soft leaves and lilac-coloured flowers with spots or streaks of purple inside the flower.

How to grow it

This eremophila bears masses of flowers in spring and summer but is also an attractive shrub when not in flower. It can be propagated from cuttings or by grafting onto Myoporum and grows best in well-drained soil in a sunny position. It is drought tolerant and frost resistant except when young when the branch tips may be damaged by severe frosts.

Where it grows

E. decussata occurs in disjunct populations on the Nullarbor Plain, near Ooldea and Billa Kalina in South Australia and east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. It usually grows in nutrient-poor, rocky, calcareous soils.

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 decussata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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