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Eremophila prostrata, the Rainbow Valley fuchsia bush, is a low, spreading shrub from the Northern Territory with masses of purple flowers. It is fast-growing but short-lived and grows best in well-drained soil in full sun.
Eremophila prostrata, commonly known as Rainbow Valley fuchsia bush, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory. It is a prostrate shrub with glabrous branches and leaves and purple flowers. It occurs as a few scattered populations with a total area of less than 50 ha (100 acres).
Although not well known in cultivation, the masses of flowers of the dark purple form of this low, spreading shrub indicate its horticultural potential. It is fast-growing but short-lived and its requirements are not as yet well understood. It can be propagated from cuttings or by grafting onto Myoporum, grows best in well-drained soils in a sunny position and is moderately drought and frost tolerant.
Eremophila prostrata is only known from a total area of 50 hectares south of Alice Springs where it grows on sand plains and near sand hills. Sometimes, especially after fire, thousands of individuals are seen but the plants seem to have a short life span and at 5 of the 7 known sites there were fewer than 50 individual plants in 2006.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eremophila prostrata 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.
