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Eremophila tenella is an erect, spindly, drooping-branched shrub from Western Australia's arid interior, grown in gardens for its silvery foliage and white to pale lilac flowers. It is new to horticulture and hard to grow, especially in cold climates, so it needs full sun and very well-drained soil.
Eremophila tenella is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub with pendulous branches and with its branches and leaves covered with a layer of fine, branched, yellow-grey hairs. Its buds are yellowish but open to white or pale lilac flowers.
This eremophila is new to horticulture and its requirements in the garden are not well known. It can be propagated by grafting onto Myoporum rootstock and mature plants require a well-drained soil in a sunny position. It has proven difficult to grow in southern states and is known to be damaged by frost.
This eremophila is common in the Paterson Range near Christmas Pool, emerging above grassland on stony hillsides, 20 km (10 mi) south-west of Telfer in the Little Sandy Desert biogeographic region.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eremophila tenella 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.
