Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Eremophila mitchellii

Common name

Budda, False Sandalwood

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Where found

Variety of habitats including woodland and along streams. Western Slopes.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 10 m tall. Regenerates from the roots after disturbance. Fruit dry. Bark finely flaky scaly. Stems hairless, often resinous. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 2-6 cm long, 1-7 mm wide, hairless, somewhat sticky, usually with a hooked tip. Flowers white to cream, pinkish, or brown, 10–18 mm long, tubular, spotted inside the tube, the tube bell-shaped with five uneven lobes, in clusters of 2-3 flowers. Flowering: spring and sometimes autumn.

Family was Myoporaceae.

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