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Eremophila freelingii
Limestone fuchsia is a small to medium Australian shrub, typically 0.8 to 2 m tall and wide, with sticky lilac tubular flowers. It is grown in full sun and very well-drained soil, and it tolerates dry conditions once established.
Eremophila freelingii, commonly known as limestone fuchsia or rock fuchsia bush, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a shrub with sticky, hairy, lance-shaped leaves and flowers a shade of light to dark lilac and which occurs in Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.
Eremophila freelingii occurs in the North-western, Lake Eyre, Gairdner-Torrens, Flinders Ranges and Eastern botanical regions of South Australia where it grows in clay soils in rocky areas. In New South Wales it is found north of the Tibooburra-Milparinka area growing in rocky areas in association with mulga. It is also found in the south of the Northern Territory and far south-west of Queensland, commonly on rocky hills or stony flats.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eremophila freelingii 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.
