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The flowers usually have 5 spreading sepals and 5 petals which are joined into a tube, at least at the base.

Leaf size and shape is also variable but the leaves are usually small and are often shiny or hairy. Some species have common names including emu bush, poverty bush or fuchsia bush, reflecting the belief that emus eat the fruit, their arid environment or a superficial resemblance to the flowers of plants in the genus Fuchsia.Įremophilas vary in size and habit from low, prostrate shrubs such as E. The petals are joined, at least at their bases, into a tube with the upper petals different in size and shape from the lower ones. Eremophilas are widespread in the arid areas of Australia, especially Western Australia and range in size from low-growing shrubs to small trees. (One species, Eremophila debilis is thought to be a recent arrival in New Zealand). These operators MUST be in capital letters.Eremophila is a genus of more than 260 species of plants in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae all of which are endemic to mainland Australia. You can use the following boolean operators in your search: AND, OR, NOT. If a query word contains a ? any character will match that position. If a query word ends with a * all words on a page which start the same way as that query word will match. If you prepend a word with - that word is required to not be on the page. If you prepend a word with + that word is required to be on the page.

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The search engine supports three types of phrase search. In addition, there are several ways to modify the default search behavior. If that happens a short message is displayed at the top of the search results indicating this has been done. If that fails, it then tries to locate pages which contain any words in your search query. Most forms of E.glabra strike readily from cuttings.īy default the search engine tries to locate pages which have exact matches for all of the words entered in your search query. The latter involves splitting the fruits in halves and quarters but some seeds are inevitably damaged during the process. A number of treatment methods have been tried including sowing the ripe fruits, sowing of aged and washed fruits and splitting the fruits to extract the seeds prior to sowing. Propagation from seed of Eremophila species is unreliable. Forms with hairy leaves can be prone to fungal attack in humid areas. The species is tolerant of at least moderate frost and, once established, tolerates extended dry periods. It should be grown in an open, sunny position with good drainage. The species is best suited to dry climates but has also been successfully cultivated in warm, temperate areas. This forms a shrub to about 1 metres high.

“Murchison River” form – attractive silvery foliage with bright red flowers.

This is probably the hardiest form and is excellent for landscaping.

Prostrate form – a spreading shrub to 0.3 m and a spread of 1-2 metres.

Many forms of this species are in cultivation, eg: Flowering occurs from late winter to summer.

The flowers also vary considerably and may be green, yellow, orange or red. Leaves may be glabrous (without hairs) or greyish and conspicuously hairy.

The species ranges from completely prostrate forms to shrubs up to 1.5 metres high. They are generally plants of inland and arid areas and are popular with Australian plant enthusiasts.Įremophila glabra is a very complex species with many different forms. Eremophila is a large genus of 214 species, all endemic to Australia.