Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eremophila deserti

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Fruit. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Wanaaring, NSW

Shrub. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Common name

Turkeybush

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Where found

Woodland, mallee, rocky areas, and along streams. Western Slopes. One record with a herbarium specimen, and a sighting, NE of Taralga along and near Wombeyan Caves Road.

Notes

Shrub to 4 m tall. Fruit fleshy. Branches sometimes obscurely warty. Stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2-5.5 cm long, 3-8 mm wide, hairless, with a hooked point. Male and female flowers on different plants, sometimes flowers bisexual. Flowers white to cream, 4–7 mm long, tubular, with five lobes. Flowers in 1-4 flowered clusters. Fruit yellow to brown or black, oval to almost round, 4–6.5 mm long. Flowering: late winter to early summer.

Family was Myoporaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eremophila~deserti (accessed 7 January, 2021).