Budda, Harlequin Fuchsia Bush

Member - John and Val — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 04:13:00 GMT

This Eremophila is widely distributed and has showy red or red and yellow flowers. It grows as a shrub to about 3m tall on red sand in open dry scrubland.The leaves are narrow linear-lanceolate, 2 to 5 cm long, and up to 8 mm wide. The leaf tip or apex is acute, and the leaf margins are entire or rarely toothed. Mature leaves are glabrous. The showy flowers are solitary in the leaf axils and are on a long pedicel or flower stalk. Sepals are fairly conspicuous 18 mm wide, green to reddish brown. Corolla 25–35 mm long, red above, yellow below, sometimes all yellow, unspotted, sparsely pubescent or glabrous outside; lobes acute. Stamens exserted beyond the end of the petals.
Family: Scrophulariaceae Genus: Eremophila Species: duttonii Main Flower Colour: Orange

Scrophulariaceae Eremophila duttonii Wildflowers

Budda, Harlequin Fuchsia Bush