Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eremophila longifolia

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Flower and green fruit on stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Photographer Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Common name

Berrigan, Emubush

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Where found

Dry forest, mallee, woodland, shrubland, grassland, and occasionally in areas subject to flooding. Western Slopes north and west from Wagga Wagga.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 8 m tall. Often suckers from the roots. Fruit fleshy. Mature bark rough, divided into squarish segments. Stems hairy, sometimes sticky. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3-20 cm long, 3-14 mm wide, hairy, often becoming hairless, often sticky, margins entire, tips usually hooked. Flowers pinkish to reddish brown, spotted or unspotted, 20–30 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, with five lobes, in clusters of 1-5 at the bases of the leaves. Flowering: most of year. Fruit blackish to purplish, almost round to almost oval, 5–12 mm long. 

Family was Myoporaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eremophila~longifolia (accessed 14 January, 2021)